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J R
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".
To complete the novel, Gaddis received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Excerpts of the work were published in "The Dutton Review", "Antaeus
The Correspondence of William Blackwood and Henry Merivale Trollope". The Princeton University Library Chronicle 47.2 (1986): 189-223.
- "Trollope and Carlyle". Nineteenth-Century Fiction 27.2 (Sep., 1972): 197-205.
External links.
- Author page at David R. Godine, Publisher
- Recording of interview with N. John Hall analyzing C.P Snow's "Trollope: His Life and Art" on "Reader's Almanac", WNYC, Sep 6, 1976
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