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  JR (Paperback) By (author) William Gaddis

  

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  Short Description for JRA 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.
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  • Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
  • Published: 10 September 2003
  • Format: Paperback 726 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781843541653 ISBN 10: 1843541653
  • Sales rank: 152,502

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Full description for JR

• 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 and the seminal American novel.