Jailbird: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385333900 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nothing is spared.”—People“Vonnegut is our strongest writer the most stubbornly imaginative.”—John Irving “A gem a mature, imaginative novel—possibly the best he has written Jailbird is a guided tour de force of America. “He has never been more satirically on-target. Take it!”—Playboy
Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government—and in the heart. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate’s least known co-conspirator
"Five Stars" according to W SMITH Jr.. great. Not his best work. This is my least favorite Vonnegut of the six or seven I've read. It takes a while for things to get started, and even then they never get on a roll. I never had the desire to find out what was going to happen to the protagonist next. I couldn't empathize with him. I found it easy to put this down at night instead of choosing reading over sleep, as it has been with his other books.. ILayReading said I Lay Reading: Jailbird--KV is just so weird.. I don’t know what to say about this. Kurt Vonnegut is one of those authors that “everyone” loves without question. But I really have no idea what I just read.When I could keep the thread, it was really good. It was an interesting, historical fiction commentary about the Watergate scandal and greed in America.But it was SO HARD to keep the thread. Vonnegut jumps all over the place, his thoughts are far from linear–more like a