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Book Description
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-consContinue
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lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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Mod Apostle
One by one, God snuffs the stars. The light fades from the firmament (reports Kurt Vonnegut in his novels), life on earth becomes a sad carnival, with geeks, clowns, and chimpanzees slogging forlornly through the scattered hay. Citizens are robots, m ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 276 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099999005
- ISBN-13: 9780099999003
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Sep 17, 1992
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780099999003 | Paperback | $14.47 | $11.37 | The Book Depository |
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Vonnekit
The publication of Jailbird in Britain is oddly well-timed. The hero of this novel, Walter F. Starbuck, joins the Communist Party before the war while still at Harvard. Later he becomes a civil servant, and in 1949 is investigated by a Congressional ... (read full critics)