| Front | Brighton Rock |
|---|---|
| Back | novel Graham Greene 1938 the story is set in the criminal underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, a 17-year-old gang leader plans to murder Fred Hale, a journalist who indirectly caused the death of the gangs's former leader during the attack Hale dies of heart attack and Pinkie later realizes that he has left a clue in a café which could establish his guilt, and by marrying the witness Pinkie prevented her from appearing as a future witness against him ida Arnold determines to establish the truth about his death she attempts to persuade Rose to abandon Pinkie in the end pinkie tries to escape from police and meanwhile blind himself and eventually died over the edge of a cliff Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film in 1947 and 2010. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The title refers to a confectionery traditionally sold at seaside resorts, which in the novel is used as a metaphor for the personality of Pinkie, which is the same all the way through. There are links between this novel and Greene's earlier novel A Gun for Sale (1936), because Raven's murder of the gang boss Kite, mentioned in A Gun For Sale, allows Pinkie to take over his gang and thus sets the events of Brighton Rock in motion. |
Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.
Next card: Ballads printed broadsides single paper popular song large
Previous card: Bridge crane crane's york city's long poem hart
Up to card list: Wordsworth companion to literature by Bahman Moradi