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Brighton Rock

Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a 17-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Colleoni. His calamitous childhood and repressed sexuality combine to create a force of evil which is both fascinating and repellent.

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  • ""A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen year old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold -- Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'."
  • "In this ... novel of murder and menace, [the author] lays bare the soul of a boy of seventeen who stalks Brighton's tawdry board-walk with apathy on his face and murder in his heart. Pinkie, the boy with death at his fingertips, is not just bad, he worships in the temple of evil, just as his parents worshipped in the house of God. Crime, in his dark mind, is a release so deep and satisfying that he has no need for drink or women or the love of his fellows. He is an astounding character, sinister and ... "a chilling specimen of the Adolf Hitler Type," in the words of J.M. Coetzee. -Dust jacket."
  • "An unabridged audio edition of Graham Greene's classic gang war thriller.A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death...Read by Samuel West."
  • "Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a 17-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Colleoni. His calamitous childhood and repressed sexuality combine to create a force of evil which is both fascinating and repellent."
  • "PLAYAWAY. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold."
  • "Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a 17-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Colleoni. His calamitous childhood and repressed sexuality combine to create a force of evil which is both fascinating and repellent."@en
  • "A psychological novel set in the Brighton underworld which concerns a gang of young race track followers. The leader, whose mind is consumed by bitterness over his poverty-stricken childhood, seeks retribution through bizarre acts of sadism."@en
  • "Expose of vilence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld."
  • "Beneath the tawdry gaiety of the pubs and peep shows of a seaside town lurks a hidden underworld of danger and corruption, a world of protection rackets, mobs and the sudden vengeance of a cut-throat razor. Graham Green's masterly thriller, set in the mean streets of 1930s' Brighton, centres on Pinkie, a sadistic teenage gangleadr desperate to escape the brutal proverty of his childhood and driven by a calculating ambition that will stop at nothing - not even murder. The death of a lonely journalist starts a fateful spiral of events in which Pinkie lures the innocent Rose into this spell, aware that she is the only person who can testify against him. But he is not prepared for the hedonistic and justice-seeking Ida who takes up the challenge of bringing the dead man's killer to justice."@en
  • "Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the story depicts the tragic career of a 17 year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Calleoni."@en

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  • "Spændende bøger"@da
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Kriminalitet og fængselsvæsen"@da

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  • "Brighton Rock"@da
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  • "Brighton Rock"
  • "Brighton Rock [sound recording (CD)]"
  • "Brighton Rock a BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of Graham Greene's"
  • "Brighton rock"@en
  • "Brighton rock"
  • "Brighton Rock[Talking Book]"

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