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J R by William Gaddis
Category: Fiction
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 hal ...Show more
JR by William Gaddis
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature Series
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something more dangerous, yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a hilarious eleven year old--J R--who with boyish enthusiasm turns a few basic l ...Show more
Letters of William Gaddis by William Gaddis
Category: Politics
Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, thes ...Show more
The Letters of William Gaddis - Revised Edition by William Gaddis; Steven Moore (Editor); Sarah Gaddis (Afterword by)
Category: Biography Memoir
A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gad ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar ction and the rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn t read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Category: Fiction
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate 'originals' - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis; Tom McCarthy (Introduction by); William H. Gass (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving fr ...Show more
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