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A Question of Price
Harrington, Alan | December 7, 1957 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Room at the Top," by John Braine. The section of Yorkshire, England known as West Riding which gave to literature Humbert Wolfe and J.B. Priestley, has now produced a powerful new novelist, John Braine, and a memorable young man of modern England, Joe Lampton, the social-climbing protagonist of "Room At the Top." John Braine has been called one of England's angry young men, but "Room At The Top" is not an angry book. Rather it is a novel of recognition, that the cramping system of class distinction in England has had it. It is a sardonic work by a writer whose hero knows the price of everything. The novel is saturated with prices, the price of furnishings, clothes, automobiles and girls.

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ROOM at the Top (Book); BOOKS; BRAINE, John; AUTHORS; SOCIAL classes; LITERATURE
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