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Jailbird
Jailbird
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government... and in the heart. 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. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440054498
ISBN-10: 0440054494
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 246
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4 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Kurt vonegut is one of my favorite writes. The thing that was truly amazing was how accurately the book satires the events of 2008 and 2009 even the it was written many years earlier. He dead on about Ponzi schemes and the corruption in government that lands so many Harvard graduates in jail. After Madoff , Sanford and the crazed short selling on Wall St., I needed a good laugh.
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fun trip
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This is without doubt the funniest of the Vonnegut books I have read so far. The protagonist is so self-deprecating and fatalistic. No matter how many bad things happen to him he just keeps plodding along. The wit and unique style of Vonnegut shine throughout this book.
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A reasonable Vonnegut offering. Much better than Breakfast of Champions, and somewhat better than Slaughterhouse Five (all in my opinion... your mileage may well vary). There isn't a lot of plot here, but there is enough to follow it, and there is a story line. Worth reading, but probably not something I'll read again.


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