Brighton Rock

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Graham Greene, J. M. Coetzee: Brighton Rock (2010, Penguin Random House)

304 pages

English language

Published April 13, 2010 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4070-8683-5
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An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to covers his tracks but circumstances never seem to go his way and he becomes ever more desperate, even going so far as to marry a young girl who witnessed the shooting, it being the law at that time that a man’s wife could not be forced to testify against him.

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OK, I admit defeat. If I had not chosen to read this whilst ill I imagine I would have got through it, since it is short by modern standards. As it is I just can't stand to spend more time around these characters that I uniformly can't empathise with and mostly find irritating or down-right unpleasant. There is a character one is supposed (I assume) to like and root for but I find her as annoying as the other two major protagonists. Ultimately I just find these people boring. So, I give up having made it approximately half-way.

Subjects

  • Greene, graham, 1904-1991
  • English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century