{"product_id":"brighton-rock","title":"Brighton Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 1938, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Graham Greene’s chilling portrait of violence, conscience and damnation in the tawdry seaside world of pre-war Brighton. When seventeen-year-old gangster Pinkie Brown murders a journalist, he attempts to protect himself by manipulating Rose, a young waitress who becomes entangled in his crimes, while Ida Arnold, an outspoken and pleasure-loving woman, pursues the truth. Beneath its tightly wound plot of gang warfare, blackmail and murder, Greene’s novel becomes a disturbing study of the conflict between earthly morality and religious belief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of Greene’s most celebrated early novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e combines the momentum of a crime thriller with the gravity of a Catholic moral fable. Its vividly rendered streets, racecourses and seafront amusements form the setting for a darker inquiry into sin, free will, innocence and the possibility of redemption. In Pinkie, Greene creates a frighteningly young and complicated antagonist whose fear of damnation sits uneasily beside his capacity for cruelty, while Ida’s instinctive belief in justice challenges the assumption that religious conviction guarantees goodness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A serious novel could be an exciting novel — that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ian McEwan, on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64066794062154,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/brighton-rock","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}