“Brilliant and uncompromising.” - The New York Times But loitering in the shadows is another woman-one determined to avenge Pinkie’s latest victim. The coverup leads Pinkie to a timid and lovestruck young waitress-his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. His extraordinary reputation rests largely on these three superb novels, all of which have been adapted into classic films.īrighton Rock : Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised in the prewar Brighton slums, leads a motley pack of gangsters whose small-time scams have erupted in murder. Graham Greene has been hailed as “one of the finest writers of any language” ( The Washington Post ) and “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” (William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies ). Three iconic novels from “a superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy” ( The New York Times ).
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