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Автор: Gaddis, William (Уильм Гэддис)
Название: J R
Перевод названия: Уильм Гэддис: J R
ISBN: 9781681374680
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Экономика

ISBN-10: 1681374684
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 784
Вес: 0.86 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 140 x 43
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Fiction - General
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis.

At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is a running a massive Ponzi scheme out a phone booth in the school hallway. Everyone from the school staff to the municipal government to the squabbling heirs of a player piano company to the titans of Wall Street and the politicians in Washington will be caught up in the J R Company, an endlessly ballooning bubble that encompasses shaky mineral claims and gas leases, defense contracts, a string of nursing homes cum funeral parlors, matchbooks, marijuana, prostheses, publishing, and even a formula for frozen music.

First published in 1975, J R is an appallingly funny and all-too-prophetic depiction of Americas romance with finance and its disastrous consequences. It is also a book about suburban development and urban decay, divorce proceedings and disputed wills, the crumbling facade of Western civilization and the impossible demands of love and art, with characters ranging from the earnest young composer Edward Bast, who inadvertently finds himself the public face of the J R company, to the berserk publicist Davidoff, whose unceasing output of hype and spin and buzz make him one of the great grotesques of modern fiction. Told almost entirely through dialogue, Gaddiss novel is a story of compounding misunderstandings, at once absurd and desperate. It is both a literary tour-de-force and an unsurpassed reckoning with the way we live now.

J R, Gaddis, William