Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film. John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013. Joe Lampton, demobilised at the end of the Second World War, is starting in
Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer. Cohen grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended UC Berkeley and subsequently received his MFA from Columbia University. Cohen's themes center around issues of contemporary identity and transcendence. His writing has been praised as "wild and ingenious" by "The New York Times", "formidable" by "The Atlantic Monthly", and "ruefully funny" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." DG Meyers of "A Commonplace Blog" writes, "Sentence by sentence, Robert Cohen is perhaps the best prose stylist of any American novelist now writing." His first novel, "The Organ