{"product_id":"room-at-the-top","title":"Room at the Top","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description      \u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year.\" -\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts.\" -\u003cbr\u003eDaily Express\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoom 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.\u003cbr\u003e      From AudioFile      \u003cbr\u003eThe screen version of this 1957 novel remains a celebrated classic of the \"Angry Young Man\" school. A working-class Yorkshireman tells the story of his ruthless social climbing. As impersonated by Paul McGann, he is one dull guy. McGann reads intelligently but with a dearth of expressiveness. He comes to life a bit during passages of dialogue, but otherwise drones. Y.R. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--\u003cbr\u003eCopyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/john-braine-books\"\u003eJohn Braine\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780140013610\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47909123096753,"sku":"SB-014001361X-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/014001361X.jpg?v=1789195577","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/room-at-the-top","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}