A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. -- The Washington Post. are ultimately serious and worth our contemplation. . .
His far-reaching metaphysical and cultural concerns . . . . are worth the price of admission. . .
His imaginative leaps alone . . . . -- Chicago Sun-Times Vonnegut at his impressive best.
Lenny Bruce. . . -- Cosmopolitan Vonnegut is our great apocalyptic writer, the closest thing we\'ve had to a prophet since . gleams with the loony magic Vonnegut alone can achieve. . . -- Chicago Tribune Book World Joyously inventive .
Jailbird definitely mounts up on angelic wings--in its speed, in its sparkle, and in its high-flying intent. . .
Take it -- Playboy A profoundly humane comedy .
Jailbird is a guided tour de force of America. . . a mature, imaginative novel--possibly the best he has written . . . --John Irving A gem . the most stubbornly imaginative. . .
Praise for Jailbird Vonnegut] is our strongest writer .
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.
Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate\'s least known co-conspirator.
This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F.
Nothing is spared.-- People Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government--and in the heart. . . .
Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target.
Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate\'s least known co-conspirator.
This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F.
A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays
