JR (1975) (edit title/settings)

edited the summary of JR Friday, February 4, 2011.

• The way in which JR’s growing paper empire impinges on the lives of the other characters allows Gaddis to explore a number of themes that will be familiar from his first novel. Around the central figure of JR are educators, writers and musicians and through their greed and need we see how human relationships are torn asunder and how artistic creativity is stunted or dissipated. (williamgaddis.org)