J R
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| Author | William Gaddis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Released | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 726 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-14-018707-3 (paperback edition) |
J R is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1975 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., J R was Gaddis's second novel and received the National Book Award in 1976.
J R tells the story of the eponymous 11-year-old boy 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 American financial markets.
The novel is told almost entirely in dialogue with no narrative indication given of which character is speaking, except through the conversational context itself.
Gaddis received funding toward completion of the novel from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Excerpts were originally published in The Dutton Review, Antaeus, and Harper's magazine.
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