by John Braine
Hot-tempered and coldly calculating, he's out for
all he can get -- power, money . . . love.
"A major achievement."
-- New York Herald Tribune
"It is a long time since we heard the hunger of
youth really snarling; and it's a good sound to hear
again."
-- London Sunday Times
"An excellent book, funny, serious, inventive, hon-
est and full of life."
-- Harpers
"A brilliantly sustained tragi-comedy."
-- New Yorker
John Braine, one of England's leading
young writers, has been hailed as a
"powerful new novelist" by The Nation
and a "young writer of skill and force"
by the Washington Post. He began writ-
ing at the age of seven. Room at the Top
is his first novel. It was published in the
hardcover edition by Houghton Mifflin
Company,
Published by the New American Library
