{"product_id":"room-at-the-top-book-john-braine-9780416006018","title":"Room at the Top","description":"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. - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year. - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts. - \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoom at the Top\u003c\/i\u003e (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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598037459217,"sku":"GOR013565076","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0416006019.jpg?v=1751358445","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/room-at-the-top-buch-john-braine-9780416006018","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}