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Room at the Top

(1957)
(The first book in the Joe Lampton series)
A novel by

 
 
His first book, which launched England's Angry Young Man movement. Basis for the 1959 film directed by Jack Clayton and starring Simone Signoret and Lawrence Harvey. Following the Osborn Play "The Outsider" by one year, this book continues the theme, young man on the make, rejecting traditional values of honesty and hard work.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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