"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and it's a good sound to hear again." - "Sunday Times" "The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year." - "New York Times" "This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts." - "Daily Express" Brought up amid squalor and poverty in a dead, ugly small town, young Joe Lampton has one ambition: to...
"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a lo...
"A valid and important human situation . . . The book is vivid with the characteristic Braine sights and smells." - Kenneth Allsop, "Daily Mail" "Triumphantly underlines the point that "Room at the Top" was no flash-in-the-pan. He alone, of the generation that has achieved celebrity in the last five years, is a genuine novelist in the great tradition." - "Yorkshire Post" "A gifted and skilled writer . . . His prose is at its best extremely vivid." - Richard Hoggart, "The Guardian" "The work of a real writer." - Peter Green, "The Telegraph" "Once again Mr. Braine shows his...
"A valid and important human situation . . . The book is vivid with the characteristic Braine sights and smells." - Kenneth Allsop, "Daily Mail" ...
"It deserves its success. It is very far from being a mere frivolous bestseller." - Anthony Burgess, "Observer" "Alive from the first moment to the last." - "Listener" "John Braine has brilliantly repeated the success of his first novel." - Arthur Calder-Marshall, "Financial Times" In John Braine's remarkable first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), he introduced readers to Joe Lampton, a ruthlessly ambitious young working-class man determined to reach the top at any cost. The book became a defining novel of the decade, selling over a million copies and being adapted for an...
"It deserves its success. It is very far from being a mere frivolous bestseller." - Anthony Burgess, "Observer" "Alive from the first moment to t...