'Between the stirrup and the ground': Is there any redemption for Pinkie in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock?

On 23 September 1989, in an interview with John Cornwell, Graham Greene was asked' "What, in the final analysis, . . . does your religion mean to you?" ' Greene's answer was: ' "Ithink . . . it's a mystery . . . It is a mystery which can't be destroyed ....

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