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JR / William Gaddis ; with an introduction by Frederick R. Karl.
LIBRA PS3557.A28 J2 1993 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaddis, William, 1922-1998.
- Series:
- Penguin twentieth-century classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalists and financiers--Fiction.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxi pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 725 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, [1993]
- Summary:
- At the center of this hugely comic tale of "free enterprise" America stands JR--an eleven-year-old capitalist, eagerly following the example of the grasping world around him. Operating through pay phones and post-office money orders, JR inadvertently parlays a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue, and a single share of common stock into a vast paper empire embracing timber, mineral and natural gas rights, publishing, and a brewery. At once a novel of epic comedy and a biting satire of the American dream, JR displays the style and extraordinary inventiveness that has made Gaddis one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [2]).
- ISBN:
- 0140187073
- 9780140187076
- OCLC:
- 28271816
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