Room at the Top
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First American edition. A bit of rubbing at the spine ends, else near fine in price-clipped good or better dustwrapper with age-toning, modest stains, and a chip at the crown. 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*.
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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