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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 and the seminal American novel.
 
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Hardback Editions

September 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000JZ78BATitle: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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June 1976 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0224012533Title: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-224-01253-3 / 978-0-224-01253-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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1975 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0394495500Title: J.R.
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-394-49550-0 / 978-0-394-49550-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Paperback Editions

September 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1843541653Title: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 1-84354-165-3 / 9781843541653 (UK edition)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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August 1993 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140187073Title: JR (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-14-018707-3 / 978-0-14-018707-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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July 1985 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140080392Title: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-14-008039-2 / 978-0-14-008039-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books
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June 1976 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 022401272XTitle: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-224-01272-X / 978-0-224-01272-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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1975 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000GZB0BCTitle: JR
Author(s): William Gaddis
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Other Editions

October 1975 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0394731425Title: J R
Author(s): William Gaddis
ISBN: 0-394-73142-5 / 978-0-394-73142-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf
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