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J R

J R
William Gaddis

J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975. In the story, a schoolboy secretly amasses a fortune in penny stocks. J R won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1976. It was Gaddis' first novel since the 1955 publication of The Recognitions.

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“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”

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