Jailbird: A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Author: Kurt VonnegutEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-12
ISBN: 0385333900
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: Rich With Irony
Summary: 5 Stars
Vonnegut has a way of combining Orwell's eye with Updike's wit, and the sum is greater still, than the parts.Jailbird takes readers on a long ride, beginning in WWII and ending somewhere in amoral corporate America, a land where friends come eaiser if you're the head of the "Downhome Records" division of the awesome RAMJAC Corporation.
Vonnegut tells a compelling tale, rich with ironic twists and tiny coincedences, all of which roll nicely into the growing snowball that Jailbird becomes.
Jailbird is a fabulous for Vonnegut first-timers, largely because it does not draw on past works the way many of his other classics do.
That said, if you are a Vonnegut reader, you quickly feel at home, comfortably but helplessly watching Walter Starbuck run his life into the ground.
How Vonnegut can paint the world of inalterable predestiny without any sense of cynicism is beyond me, but you never feel a sense of impending doom, only a happy, benign resignation.
All that must be, will be, yet, it's gotta be, so...why not.
This is a book you will reread countless times.
Summary of Jailbird: A Novel
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 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.Classics Books
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