JR - Softcover
A biting satire, JR features JR, an eleven-year-old capitalist, who embodies the cash culture he grows up in.The young JR manipulates his meagre economic beginnings including a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue and turns them into a massive paper empire. The novel's satiric assault upon the American Dream, and the economics it represents makes a compulsive read andthe seminal American novel.
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WILLIAM GADDIS (1922-98) was one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America.He wrote five novels and won two National Book Awards, for JR (1976) and for A Frolic of His Own (1995).His other landmark novels include: The Recognitions (1955) and Carpenter's Gothic (1985).Agape Agape was published by Atlantic in 2002.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 022401272X
- ISBN 13 9780224012720
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages736
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(1976)
ISBN 10: 022401272X
ISBN 13: 9780224012720
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Mild shelf wear, moderate scuffing on page edges. Pages clean, with slight age toning. Crease on spine, binding shows use but is intact. Seller Inventory # mon0000125026
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