Description: J R by William Gaddis (1993 Penguin Softcover Edition)At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk-mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is running a paper empire out of a phone booth in the school hallway. Everyone from the school staff to the municipal government to the squabbling heirs of a player-piano company to the titans of Wall Street and the politicians in Washington will be caught up in the endlessly ballooning bubble of the J R Family of Companies.First published in 1975 and winner of the National Book Award in 1976, J R is an appallingly funny and all-too-prophetic depiction of America’s romance with finance. It is also a book about suburban development and urban decay, divorce proceedings and disputed wills, the crumbling facade of Western civilization and the impossible demands of love and art, with characters ranging from the earnest young composer Edward Bast to the berserk publicist Davidoff. Told almost entirely through dialogue, William Gaddis’s novel is both a literary tour de force and an unsurpassed reckoning with the way we live now.Vintage Softcover / Penguin / 1993 / Good Condition
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Brand: Penguin
Color: Multicolor
ISBN: 0140187073
Book Title: Jr
Number of Pages: 752 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.4 in
Topic: Classics, Literary
Publication Year: 1993
Features: Revised
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Author: William Gaddis
Item Length: 8.4 in
Book Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
