Room at the Top
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper with very slight overall age-toning. A nice copy of the author's first novel, about a young, ambitious and socially conscious working class lad. Basis for the film featuring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, who won an Oscar for her performance. *Burgess 99*.
Item #307397
John Braine
birth name: John Gerard Braine
born: 4/13/1922
died: 10/28/1987
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
British novelist, one of the so-called angry young men, whose Room at the Top (1957; film, 1958) typified the concerns of a geneartion of post-World War II British writers. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore