It’s a completely different world to the one we know now and the grim reality of a life hard lived resonates off the page. The book is set in Brighton, on the south coast of England, in the 1930s. It immediately made me want to rush out and read everything Greene had ever written, and so I pulled Brighton Rock, first published in 1938, from my shelves, where it had been sitting for almost a decade. Fiction – paperback Penguin 256 pages 1998.Ī month or so ago I watched the documentary Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene, which I had recorded on my SkyBox for rainy-day viewing.
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