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Title:

JR
 

Authors:

Genres:

Fiction (General)
Avante Garde & Surreal

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1975-00-00 Alfred A. Knopf  

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Blurb: 
Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 J R is a satire on corporate America and tells the story of the eleven-year-old schoolboy JR Vansant who builds an enormous economic empire from his school"s public phone booth, an empire that touches everyone in the novel, just as money -- the getting of it, worry about the lack of it, the desire for it -- shapes a great deal of the characters