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-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.
language: English
title: Jailbird
titlecomplete: Jailbird
characters: Walter F. Starbuck, Kilgore Trout
genres: Humor, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Politics, Fiction, Literature, American
ratings_count: 23896
places: The United States of America
publisher: Random House Value Publishing