At the end of this novel, a priest comments on “the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God” before mechanically telling Rose to “hope and pray.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which a murder prompts Ida Arnold to investigate Pinkie, a teenage gang leader in the title British city.
ANSWER: Brighton Rock
[10m] This author of Brighton Rock also wrote a novel in which an outlawed and nameless “whisky priest” flees from an anti-religion lieutenant in Tabasco.
ANSWER: Graham Greene
[10e] Greene set The Power and the Glory in this country, which is also the setting of Malcolm Lowry’s novel Under the Volcano. Octavio Paz was a poet from this country.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]
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