Room at the Top - Softcover
This tale of ambition in post-war Britain immediately established its author, who died in 1986, as an original novelist who portrayed his characters with a savagery and realism that typified the decade of the 1950s.
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"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)
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"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)
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.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 014001361X
- ISBN 13 9780140013610
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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