Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene · 1938
Literary Fiction · ranked #37 in category
Pinkie Brown, a vicious teenage gang leader in Brighton's criminal underworld, murders a rival and then marries a naive girl who witnessed the killing. Greene's novel is both a thriller and a deeply Catholic meditation on sin, damnation and the question of whether grace can reach even the most corrupt soul.
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