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Room at the Top - John Braine

Description: ISBN 0099445360 / Author: John Braine / Genre: Fiction / The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of ... more

Room at the Top - John Braine ... local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high.

Newest Review: ... it was very difficult to pretend to be anything else but. Reading `Room At The Top` is like taking a trip back in time. Even ... more

... though the book has quite a few characters there are three principal characters that make the story work so well. Joe Lampton is a 25 year old young man who loves his pint of beer, his cigarettes and above all his women. Joe works in the local council offices and in his spare time he tries his hand at amateur dramatics. Joe has looks on his side but he has been bred from working stock and he is sick and tired of being the underdog. Joe wants to climb the social ladder and to be able to socialise with the best of th...more

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Room at the Top - John Braine: Be True Unto Thine Self Joe (762 words)
by - written on 26/08/09 (Very useful, 57 readings)
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The late John Braine was born in 1922 in Bingley, West Yorkshire and in total he wrote twelve books, all fiction. John's most popular novel was `Room At The Top`, written in 1957 and eventually two years later the story was made into a film. It is obvious that John had a great rapport with the North of England and his understanding of the Northern way of life during the 1950s is strikingly `real` as you start to head into the story. Lets not forget for one moment just how different life was during the 1950s, the men were seen as the head of the household, men drank beer in smoky public houses, smoking was perfectly acceptable and even considered as chic and ... Read the complete review