{"product_id":"room-at-the-top-1939140331","title":"Room at the Top","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1939140331\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Braine, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrought 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.Room at the Top (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.\"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.\" - Sunday Times\"The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year.\" - New York Times\"This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd and the emotion and the comedy are so true it hurts.\" - Daily Express\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52092590719264,"sku":"NEW1939140331","price":21.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/room-at-the-top-1939140331","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}