JR

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JR is written by William Gaddis and published by Atlantic Books (UK). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1843541653 (ISBN 10) and 9781843541653 (ISBN 13).

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.