JR by William Gaddis

9780140187076. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 752. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 752 p. Penguin Twentieth Century Classics. 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.