This title is presented with an introduction by J.M. Coetzee. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie malign & ruthless has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution he is unprepared for the courageous life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness & fear of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'. ' In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness & anxiety'
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