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Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

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Author Biography

Name: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Birth Date: November 11, 1922
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, dramatist

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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1363 words, approx. 4.5 pages
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922) is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his pungent satirical depictions of modern society. Emphasizing the comic absurdity of the human condition, he frequently depicts characters who sear...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
16774 words, approx. 55.9 pages
[This entry was updated by Peter J. Reed (University of Minnesota) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Though Kurt Vonnegut had been a widely read short-story writer throughout the 1950s and though his novels...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
14474 words, approx. 48.2 pages
As of 1987 Kurt Vonnegut's work includes twelve novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a miscellany of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and nonfiction. He is himself the subject of a nu...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jailbird Information
568 words, approx. 2 pages
Jailbird is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1979. Its plot concerns a man recently released from a low security prison. The novel eschews the typical build to a climax and reveals the outcome almost at the very beginning of the book....


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Aniston as a singing jailbird
06/15/2007: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-15-2007 Aniston as a singing jailbird THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Date: 06-15-2007, Friday Section: BETTER LIVING Edtion: All Editions Column: FILM NOTES Jennifer Aniston is tuning up a period musical at DreamWorks titled "Goree...
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The Washington Times
Bluebirds not jailbirds.(Commentary)(Editorials)
06/16/1999: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
The D.C. Zoning Commission has spoken. After numerous public hearings, the panel voted 4-0 Monday against building a low-security prison on federal land in Southwest, saying development of a prison would conflict with the city's long-range development plans, upset the environmental balance and...
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AP News
Lohan freed after 84 minutes in jail
11/16/2007: 484 words, approx. 2 pages
Lindsay Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes Thursday, becoming the latest celebrity to serve less than a day for a drunken driving offense.Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Los Angeles County women's detention center in Lynwood at 10:30 a.m. She was searched,...
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AP News
Double life: Ex-cop, drug cartel leader
1/24/2008: 538 words, approx. 2 pages
Ordinarily, a rotund grandfather shopping for watermelon in a supermarket wouldn't get a second look. Carlos Landin Martinez, however, had two bodyguards with him, and an off-duty drug agent buying food for a family barbecue knew why.Landin led two parallel lives: a quiet retiree who...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Mills
466 words, approx. 2 pages
What we have in Jailbird is an extremely closely woven narrative built up of ironic juxtapositions and incongruities stated and counterpointed as in an elaborate symphony. The development of character in terms of psychological realism is not important to Vonnegut (though a Dickensian presentation of idiosyncracy is) and in fact some of his characters' names are close anagrams of one another—Leland Clewes/Cleveland Lawes; Arpad Lean/Delmar Peale—as though to suggest that their personalit...
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Critical Essay by Eric Homberger
208 words, approx. 1 pages
[In Jailbird] Vonnegut's manner, as usual, is jokey and faux naïf. He writes about serious matters—labour massacres and judicial murder in America—without the slightest risk of earnestness. Yet underneath the comedy, Vonnegut is still indignant at capitalism and bitter over the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, wondering a little ruefully why the story of their martyrdom has been forgotten…. Vonnegut's voice does not falter; like the master raconteur he is, the ...
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Critical Essay by Allen Belkind
178 words, approx. 1 pages
Beneath the absurd comedy of [Jailbird] with its chance encounters and unlikely coincidences exists a dark undertone of satiric comment on the loneliness, corruption and impersonality of American society. RAMJAC and Watergate are central symbols of our existing economic and political evils. Vonnegut's heroes are the little people like Mary Kathleen and such political martyrs as Sacco and Vanzetti (reminding one of Dos Passos's U.S.A., a probable influence on Vonnegut). As Mary Kathleen says ab...


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