# JR

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- Authors: [William Gaddis](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gaddis)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-09-10

## Description

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.

## Editions

### JR

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-165-3
- Published: 2003-09-10
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [JR](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gaddis/fr/jr) (fr_FR)