Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut

Name: Jailbird By Kurt Vonnegut
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Summary

Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in the federal government. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy gave him a job in the Nixon White House. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy-five sent him to prison for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as 'Watergate'.

Jailbird Summary

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in the federal government. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy gave him a job in the Nixon White House. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy-five sent him to prison for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as 'Watergate'. Now Walter F. Starbuck is coming out of jail, into the brave new world of 1980s Manhattan, and this is the story of his first twenty-four hours of freedom.

Jailbird Reviews

"As provoking, as amusing and as silver-tongued as anything Vonnegut has written" * New Statesman *
"Jailbird has the crackle and snap of Vonnegut's early work - his best since Cat's Cradle. Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play" * Newsweek *
"An overtly political novel attacking McCarthyism and Watergate" * Daily Telegraph *
"After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame" * Spectator *

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and according to Harper's Magazine, established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, 'one of the best living American writers'. Vonnegut died in April 2007.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001755451

ISBN 13

9780099999003

ISBN 10

0099999005

Title

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

1992-09-17

Number of pages

288

Prizes

N/A

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