Beschrijving
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, fighting for leadership, is only seventeen, yet he has already proved his ruthlessness in the brutal killing of Hale,a journalist. Untouched by human feeling, Pinkie is a figure of pure evil. Beleiving himself unassailable, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge Hale’s death. In this gripping thriller Graham Greene exposes a world of loneliness, pain and fear, of live lived on “the dangerous edge of things”.
Brighton Rock / Graham Greene. – Groningen : Wolters-Noordhoff, 2005. – 267
p. ; 21 cm. – (Blackbirds, ISSN 0926-2350 ; 2005)
Oorspr. uitg.: London : Heinemann, 1938.
ISBN 90-01-55953-0
ISBN 90-01-55951-4 (set)
INHOUD
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie,
fighting for leadership, is only seventeen, yet he has already proved his
ruthlessness in the brutal killing of Hale,a journalist. Untouched by human
feeling, Pinkie is a figure of pure evil. Beleiving himself unassailable, he
is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge
Hale’s death. In this gripping thriller Graham Greene exposes a world of
loneliness, pain and fear, of live lived on “the dangerous edge of things”.
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