Room At The Top
$24.83
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2002
Summary
The bestselling story of Joe Lampton, the original ‘angry young man’. A cult novel depicting 1950s Yorkshire, Room at the Top was adapted into an Academy Award winning film in 1959.
The Angry Young Men movement, featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis, is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and gla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099445364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099445360 |
| Author: | John Braine |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
A harsh, accurate, powerful piece of story-telling
A harsh, accurate, powerful piece of story-telling * Tribune *
Remarkable… Room at the Top communicates so successfully the mingled bitterness and bravery of youth * Sunday Times *
He has real talent – C.P. Snow
This novel is brilliant…The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts. * Daily Express *
About The Author
John Braine
John Gerard Braine (April 13, 1922 - October 28, 1986) was an English novelist. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Braine left St. Bede’s Grammar School at sixteen and worked in a shop, a laboratory and a factory before becoming, after the war, a librarian. Although he wrote twelve works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, Room at the Top (1957), which was also turned into a successful film (1959). Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement.
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