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"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" 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. "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.… (más)
Esta es la historia del imparable ascenso de Joe Lampton, un genuino trepa de clase obrera, encantador y caradura, que se abre paso como puede en la estricta Inglaterra de los primeros años de la posguerra. Atrapado en un deprimente pueblo industrial de Yorkshire, el oportunista Lampton, contable municipal cuyas principales aficiones son la cerveza y las jóvenes casaderas, aspira a crearse una «reputación social», para lo cual no dudará en ganarse el aprecio de las fuerzas vivas del lugar.
Esta es la historia del imparable ascenso de Joe Lampton, un genuino trepa de clase obrera, encantador y caradura, que se abre paso como puede en la estricta Inglaterra de los primeros años de la posguerra. Atrapado en un deprimente pueblo industrial de Yorkshire, el oportunista Lampton, contable municipal cuyas principales aficiones son la cerveza y las jóvenes casaderas, aspira a crearse una «reputación social», para lo cual no dudará en ganarse el aprecio de las fuerzas vivas del lugar. ( )
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I came to Warley on a wet September morning with the sky the grey of Guiseley sandstone.
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Eva drew my head on to her breast. 'Poor darling, you mustn't take on so. You don't see it now, but it was all for the best. She'd have ruined your whole life. Nobody blames you, love. Nobody blames you.' I pulled myself away from her abruptly. 'Oh my God,' I said, 'that's the trouble.'
"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" 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. "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.
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