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Last Reviewed on J, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird follows one Walter Starbuck, the son of a chauffeur who briefly attended Harvard but left to become a. Jailbird, a recidivist, Starbuck, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Jailbird is born in as Walter Stankiewicz, son of Stanislaus, a bodyguard and chauffer, and Ann, a cook — both in the employ of Alexander Hamilton McCone, a reclusive Cleveland millionaire. The boy's name is changed to Starbuck when McCone decides to send the lad. Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut "[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target 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.
REVIEW: Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut. “This is just the dream of a Jailbird. It's not supposed to make sense.”. Jailbird unwinds like a tight ‘who-dunnit’ mystery. This is perhaps its greatest metaphor as it seems to deal often with the notions of “how, exactly, did we end up in a world like this?” and “who, exactly, is to blame?”. “[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target 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. 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. Jailbird, a recidivist, Starbuck, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Jailbird is born in as Walter Stankiewicz, son of Stanislaus, a bodyguard and chauffer, and Ann, a cook — both in the employ of Alexander Hamilton McCone, a reclusive Cleveland millionaire. The boy's name is changed to Starbuck when McCone decides to send the lad to Harvard, his alma mater.
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