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J.R

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "JR, jeune capitaliste de 11 ans, maîtrisant le jargon de Wall Street, emblématique d'une société amorale et sans scrupule où les affaires louches remplacent la réflexion et le sentiment, devient riche par avidité et non par génie. Conte comique et impitoyable sur l'Amérique de la libre entreprise.--[Memento]."
  • "<Div>A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.</div>"@en
  • "A humorous take on the American dream as JR, an eleven-year-old boy, uses his newfound knowledge of business and the stock market to build a huge and exploitive business empire."@en
  • "A humorous take on the American dream as JR, an eleven-year-old boy, uses his newfound knowledge of business and the stock market to build a huge and exploitive business empire."

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Satire"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
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  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "J.R"
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  • "J R : [novel]"
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  • "JR [Roman]"
  • "J R"
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  • "JR : a novel"
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