num_pages: 726
description: 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.
language: English
title: Jr
titlecomplete: Jr
characters: J R Vansant
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3283
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Atlantic Books