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Brighton Rock
ISBN/GTIN

Brighton Rock

Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel
PaperbackPaperback
Ranking21337inSchulbücher
CHF19.90

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An den äußeren Grenzen der Gesellschaft, am Rande der Großstadt, entscheidet sich das seltsame Schicksal des kleinen Ganoven Pinkie und der Kellnerin Rose. In den Kreisen dieser Menschen scheint alles, was wir als Gesetz, Recht und Tradition gesichert glauben, unbekannt. Diese Männer und Frauen führen ein vom Rest der Gesellschaft völlig abgelöstes Leben, das seine eigenen Gesetze hat. In ihrer Welt stehen die Bandenchefs gleich Fixsternen am Himmel, und alle anderen kreisen wie Trabanten auf unerklärlichen, unfaßbaren Bahnen um sie.
Mit diesem Buch - erstmals 1938 erschienen - erhebt der Autor die moralische Forderung an alle, mitzuhelfen, damit die Welt nicht zu einem Inferno des Grauens, der Verzweiflung und der Maßlosigkeit wird, um schließlich daran zugrunde zu gehen.
Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

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 gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.

'Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-947847-8
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publishing date07/10/2004
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight202 g
Article no.2700539
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.8726099
Product groupSchulbücher
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Author

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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