"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 escape the anonymous, defeated crowd of "zombies" and make it to the top. Everything seems to be going according to plan when he moves to a new city, finds a good job and new friends, and inspires the love of a pretty girl with a rich father. Only one thing holds him back: his passionate affair with an older married woman. Forced to choose between true love and his ruthless pursuit of wealth and success, Joe will have to make a terrible decision, with violent and tragic consequences. Room at the Top (1957), the first novel by John Braine (1922-1986), earned widespread critical acclaim and was a runaway bestseller in England and America, running into dozens of printings and spawning a sequel and an Oscar-winning film adaptation. Still explosive more than half a century later, Braine's classic of the "Angry Young Men" movement returns to print in this edition, which features a new introduction by Janine Utell and the original jacket art by John Minton.

Room At the Top

Literature & Fiction

John Braine

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Life At the Top

Penguin Putnam~mass

The brilliant author of ROOM AT THE TOP probes the obsessive passion of a young man for a vital older woman and the painful ordeal which must follow--the exorcism of desire, the shattering of bonds, the shaking off of a profound and powerful influence.  "A masterful exploration of the many forms of love. Compulsively readable...shows us what an outstandingly good writer he is; flashes of descriptive power, subtleties of insight and intuition abound." (The Sunday Times, London)

Queen of a Distant Country

Macmillan

Braine calls this book 'a tour of his workshop' - a practical manual which tells the aspiring writer everything about writing a publishable first novel. With a wealth of quotations and advice, know-how and technique.

Writing a novel

EYRE METHUEN

The Pious Agent

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

METHUEN

Room at the Top

Houghton/Mifflin

The jealous God

FisicalBook

In this magical story, two families live in the same place--a human family and a ladybug family! While a little girl describes each of her family members, illustrations reveal that the ladybug family likes to do all the same things that the human family likes to do. Early readers can follow the similarities between these two families as they share the space together. With delightful illustrations and large font, children will have an enjoyable reading experience.

Life at the Top

Penguin

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