Graham Greene

Brighton Rock

Sarah Sammis

Graham Greene is one of my favorite authors but try as I might, I could not get into this book. I felt too many steps removed from the action to follow what was happening or to have any sort of connection with the characters.

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Tilde C

One of the best opening lines I've ever encountered in the book. The final line is EVEN BETTER.

Trever

** spoiler alert **
           Something more like 3.7. This it the first Greene novel I've read all the way through, although I have read pieces of  The End of the Affair and  The Power and the Glory. 

There's three main characters: Ida, who represents Right; Pinkie (aka "the Boy"), who's Wrong; and Rose, who is Confusion and Naïveté. Greene does a better job of making Pinkie a villain than some authors (I'm looking at you, Dickens) and Rose is well-demonstrated as a naïve little girl. Ida is a bit less well-drawn because while she is constantly working the background to get Pinkie, we don't see as much of her as we do Pinkie and Rose. But she isn't a particularly ambiguous character, and we do get a sense of her as a person. There's just not as much of her as I'd have liked there to be.

And the ending: it took me a second to understand the last sentence. (Actually, I had to look it up. But now I get it!)

Paul Camacho

One of the darkest explorations of the line between good and evil. A haunting offering from Greene, who clearly knew the stakes of this life.

Brighton Rock (Twentieth Century Classics)

Miguel

Alex Webster

Maurice FitzGerald

Ryan Haber

Meryn Kae Addison

Joshua Line

edith w.

Charles McNeilll

ajay kelkar

Alexander Lobov

"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'."--Back cover.

Amélie Vaugarny

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. Graham Greene's gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in 1947 starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding Pinkie.

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