![]() This Graham Greene Centennial Edition features. To Pinkie, allergic as he is to intimacy, these are interchangeable fates. Originally published in 1938, Brighton Rock is a novel of profound psychological mystery and chilling suspense. ![]() To do this he must silence Rose – waitress, fellow "Roman", key witness, and as innocent and youthful as her name suggests – either by marriage or by death. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie is trying to cover up his involvement in Hale's murder. Theres something of both these feelings in writer-director Rowan Joffes bold, intelligent but flawed new version of Graham Greenes Brighton Rock, his noir tale of fear and sin amid the interwar. From the opening line – "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him" – the narrative has the pull of a thriller. ![]() This reissue, with an introduction by JM Coetzee, coincides with the book's adaptation (again) to screen by Rowan Joffe, setting it in 1964 with Sam Riley in the lead role Joffe's foreword to this edition is almost an apologia for daring to remake John Boulting's 1947 version, famous for Richard Attenborough's ferocious performance as Pinkie.Īs well as bringing Greene commercial success, Brighton Rock also heralded the author's emergence as a "Catholic novelist". I t is the tension between the two faces of Brighton – the illuminated tourist bling and the gritty, mobster-laced industry behind the façade – that sets up the intrigue in Greene's classic 1938 novel of good and evil and it's the menacing, sinisterly youthful antihero Pinkie who continues to fascinate today. ![]()
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