Life at the Top life in Warley in response to trouble with his children and the self-knowledge of what his life needs. Life at the Top Life At The Top is the third novel by the English author John Braine, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the US by Houghton Mifflin & Co. in 1962. It continues the story of the life and difficulties of Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man of humble origins. A 1965 film adaptation of the novel was made starring Laurence Harvey. In September 2012, BBC television finally broadcast a two-part television adaptation of "Room
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