Room at the Top

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