Brighton rock/graham greene

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.

COETZEE I read 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 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.

Greenes gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the dangerous edge of things.