Hardcover, 725 pages

English language

Published October 1975 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-394-49550-7
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OCLC Number:
1500067
ASIN:
0394495500
Goodreads:
396677

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J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor—a rushing, raucous look at money and its influence, at love and its absence, at success and its failures, in the magnificently orchestrated circus of all its larger- and smaller-than-life characters; a frantic, forlorn comedy about who uses—and misuses—whom.

At the center: J R, ambitious sixth-grader in torn sneakers, bred on the challenge of "free enterprise" and fired by heady mail-order promises of "success.' His teachers would rather be elsewhere, his principal doubles as a bank president, his Long Island classroom mirrors the world be sees around him—a world of public relations and private betrayals where everything (and everyone) wears a price tag, a world …

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  • Free enterprise -- Fiction.

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