Title: Brighton Rock
Author: Greene, Graham
Published: 2022
ISBN: 9788419089038
Publisher: Batiscafo
Pages: 352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 214 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction
La ciudad de Brighton en la Inglaterra de los años treinta era un animado lugar de veraneo, pero también un foco de actividad criminal. El joven Pinkie Brown, con tan solo diecisiete años, lidera una banda de matones. Tras involucrarse en el asesinato de Fred Hale, un periodista relacionado con una banda rival, Pinkie teme que se descubra su coartada y hará lo que sea para impedirlo. No imagina que la obstinada Ida Arnold, amiga de la víctima, iniciará una investigación por su cuenta para esclarecer los hechos. Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.
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