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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberCE/7/12
TitleJR
DescriptionJ R tells the story of the eponymous J. R. Vansant, an 11-year-old schoolboy who obscures his identity through payphone calls and postal money orders in order to parlay penny stock holdings into a fortune on paper. The novel broadly satirizes what Gaddis called "the American dream turned inside out".[2] One critic called it "the greatest satirical novel in American literature."
Date1975
CreatorWilliam Gaddis
Related Material'JR' screenplay and treatment
LevelSeries
CopyrightWilliam Gaddis
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