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Original Title:	Life at the Top
ISBN:	0416005918 (ISBN13: 9780416005912)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	At the Top

Life at the Top (At the Top)

John Braine

Hardcover | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 3.5 | 419 Users | 22 Reviews

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Title	:	Life at the Top (At the Top)
Author	:	John Braine
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 287 pages
Published	:	May 28th 1980 by Methuen Publishing (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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In John Braine's remarkable first novel, Room at the Top (1957), he introduced readers to Joe Lampton, a ruthlessly ambitious young working-class man determined to reach the top at any cost. The book became a defining novel of the decade, selling over a million copies and being adapted for an Oscar-winning film.

In Life at the Top (1962), we meet Joe again ten years later, after he has gotten everything he thought he wanted: an upper-class wife, a nice house, a sports car, two children, and a job at the premier firm in town. But despite all his material possessions, Joe's life is strangely empty. His boss treats him with disrespect, his son despises him, and his wife is having an affair. Consumed with a growing anger and discontentment, Joe becomes desperate to escape the life he has created for himself. When he falls in love with the pretty Norah Hauxley, is it a chance to break free and start a new life, or will it prove to be just one more illusory promise of happiness?

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Disappointing follow-up to the classic Room at the Top as married life and ambition fulfilled is no substitute for love.

Not just a sequel to 'Room at the Top'. Ten years have gone by since the end of that novel and, although much of it is about Joe Lampton's increasingly frustrating professional and married life, it actually centres on his relationship with his remote son and affectionate daughter.

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Definitely inferior to Room at the Top, but sort of fun to read to see what happens to Joe. It's very much a sequel: you won't really understand much of what's going on if you haven't read the first book. The plotting is pretty thin, not to mention a little predictable. So was the first book, but you could forgive the author because it was so well paced and well written. This book can't help but give you the feeling that it was written to pay the bills. More disappointingly, it seems at one

Povestioară bună, modul de a descrie nu prea. (Posibil traducerea nu e cea mai bună, dar oricum)Personajul mi s-a părut cam plat, fără consistență, provoacă scârbă. Un disperat de atenție feminină. Orice femeie întâlnită era descrisă ca iubirea vieții lui. Finalul, de asemenea, demonstrează cât de jalnic este. (Poate eu ceva nu înțeleg ;)). )

John Gerard Braine was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1922. He sprang to immediate fame in 1957 with publication of his first novel, Room at the Top, which was a critical success and a major bestseller in England and America and was adapted for the screen in an Oscar-winning 1959 film starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey. His second novel, The Vodi (1959), met with mixed reviews and a

This author has spentg a lot of time figuring out the character's psyche. It must have driven him insane. The first half of this book is rather dull - but I do enjoy dullness. Half way through things get a little crazy. The language is wonderfully non-chalant. For someone living in this day and age it is often hard to understand the society and sociel rules of the period the book is set in.