Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780440154730ISBN:0440154731
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Different cover than pictured. One minor reading crease on spine. No chipping. No other flaws. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780440154471ISBN:0440154472
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Fair. Delacorte Press, HC with DJ, 1979. OK reading copy, solid binding, boards a little warped, DJ a little tatty, phone number on back flyleaf but no other markings or highlighting. read more
Description: PB, Dell, #15447, 1980. Covers are rubbed, reading creases, and back bottom corner is torn due to something sticking to it. Crease on fep with margin tear, contents clean and tight. Fair. read more
Edition: 8th Dell Printing
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780440154730ISBN:0440154731
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean, although tanning; binding is tight; cover is clean; crease in spine frm reading. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 288 p. Includes Index. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Dell Printing.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell, New York
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780440154471ISBN:0440154472
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Creasing on spine. Tear on bottom of spine. Crease top front cover corner. Pages tanning with age. 288 p. Includes index. read more
"He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before-in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested. - p. 165It turns out that my favorite line in this book is non-fiction. See, if you dig around for the story of Sacco and Vanzetti, you'll find that all the little legends reported in this book are true!
So when Celestino Madeiros says he saw Sacco's wife and kids and subsequently became so heart-broken over them that he decided to plead guilty-even though he was really in prison an utterly different crime-it's for reals!! He was like, "Put it on my tab, officers." Wow, I dare say. The non-fiction in this book far eclipses the made up.
Although the canned phone call between Sarah Clewes and Mr. Starbuck is as classic a moment as Vonnegut has ever played. He threw all his leftover jokes in there and punched purée.
The feeling here is somewhere between Mother Night and Bluebeard. Wrong place at the wrong time. And everybody else is smarter. So if you like this one, you'll definitely like those. And if not, then at least read Mother Night, promise me that.
This one, however, has so much name-dropping that it sports an index.Adam, 218 Adams, Alice Vonnegut, 1 Agnew, Spiro T., 74 Amati, Nicolo, 209 "Barlow, Frank X." See Robert Fender.Lastly, I must admit that his comments about our society being, ultimately, a Ponzi operation seem terribly prescient."
"Jailbird is the story of a hapless, but harmless career bureaucrat who seems destined to be continually punished for his sympathy for the working man. From the McCarthy Red Trials to Watergate, Walter F Starbuck consistently finds himself facing the wrong direction to the prevailing winds of capitalism.
Like the protagonist himself, Jailbird is a mild-mannered book simmering just under the surface with a scathing indictment of bureaucracy, ivy league education and multi-national corporations. Written in Vonnegut’s signature style, Jailbird is one of his best. A must have for any serious collection."
"My exposure to Kurt Vonnegut throughout the years has mostly been through his short stories. I recently got around to reading Slaughterhouse-Five (about time) and thoroughly enjoyed it. My brother had a copy of Jailbird from the library laying around, so I figured why not? I seem to like this guy.
Jailbird is enjoyable, but it doesn't move at the breakneck speed that Slaughterhouse-Five does. Also, the story lacks a real impact. While the plot twists are fun, they serve no great purpose. All in all, Jailbird seems like the least impressive work from an impressive author. Therefore, it's better than most junk out there, but Vonnegut's brief story Harrison Bergeron has a lot more to offer."
"Have you ever had a "Charlie Brown" day? A day where you set out with all the best intentions, putting your best foot forward, only to have the football pulled away at the last second? Well, sure, we all have. But what if you had a Charlie Brown LIFE? That's the plight of the central character of Jailbird, Walter F. Starbuck. The story concerns the two days following his release from prison for his unrememberable (and almost completelely coincidental) role in the Watergate scandal. His rebirth into society becomes a frame for the story of his life and how he came to be in prison, through rambling - yet hysterical - flashbacks. The running theme of his life? Well, Charlie Brown would sum it up best as "Good grief." Full of dark, dead pan humor, as apparently only Kurt Vonnegut can write (since this is my first Vonnegut book, I'll have to see for myself). Fantastic read!"
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