by William Gaddis · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140187076
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«JR» is the comic novel by William Gaddis, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (752 pages, in English).
The novel follows JR, an eleven-year-old boy who, imitating the greed of the adult world, builds a financial empire from phone booths and postal money orders. His operations expand to encompass rights over natural resources, publishing houses, and a brewery. It is a satire of the American dream and capitalism.
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award. This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes an introduction by Frederick R. Karl.
For readers of social satire and classic American fiction.
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013.
