- Fiction, Boys, Capitalists and financiers, Fiction in English
A humorous take on the American dream as JR, an eleven-year-old boy, uses his newfound knowledge of business and the stock market to build a huge and exploitive business empire.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- William Gaddis
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 725
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Dalkey Archive Press, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781564786975
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