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Cargando... Jailbird: A Novel (1979 original; edición 1999)por Kurt Vonnegut (Autor)
Información de la obraJailbird por Kurt Vonnegut (1979)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I liked his writing and his quirky story line. I've heard many talk about his books, mostly "Slaughterhouse-Five". Because my friends have told me I HAVE to read Vonnegut I may have set my expectations too high for this one. It's what was available in our small, rural town. ( ) It strikes me, not for the first time whilst reading Vonnegut that writers can be divided into two camps. The ones who have to work to include that smart-arse-clever line/sentence/phrase they jotted down somewhere, sometime and really really need to get in. Who was it who said that the more you like something you've written down, the more likely it is that you should take it out? And the ones who, even if what they say hits you with a jolt - and Vonnegut's lines often do that - they nonetheless fit in. They aren't forced, they naturally belong just there where the reader sets upon them. There is a hilarious Kilgore Trout story about Einstein trying to get into heaven in Jailbird. He goes through an audit first and then: Rest here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/jailbird-by-kurt-vonnegut/ It strikes me, not for the first time whilst reading Vonnegut that writers can be divided into two camps. The ones who have to work to include that smart-arse-clever line/sentence/phrase they jotted down somewhere, sometime and really really need to get in. Who was it who said that the more you like something you've written down, the more likely it is that you should take it out? And the ones who, even if what they say hits you with a jolt - and Vonnegut's lines often do that - they nonetheless fit in. They aren't forced, they naturally belong just there where the reader sets upon them. There is a hilarious Kilgore Trout story about Einstein trying to get into heaven in Jailbird. He goes through an audit first and then: Rest here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/jailbird-by-kurt-vonnegut/ It strikes me, not for the first time whilst reading Vonnegut that writers can be divided into two camps. The ones who have to work to include that smart-arse-clever line/sentence/phrase they jotted down somewhere, sometime and really really need to get in. Who was it who said that the more you like something you've written down, the more likely it is that you should take it out? And the ones who, even if what they say hits you with a jolt - and Vonnegut's lines often do that - they nonetheless fit in. They aren't forced, they naturally belong just there where the reader sets upon them. There is a hilarious Kilgore Trout story about Einstein trying to get into heaven in Jailbird. He goes through an audit first and then: Rest here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/jailbird-by-kurt-vonnegut/
Jailbird is KV's surrealistic yet stunningly pertinent account of the part he played, under the alias of Walter F. Starbuck, as the least significant—and hitherto entirely unknown—conspirator in the villainies of Watergate. No, it isn't. It's a love-affair with language and ideas. PremiosDistincionesListas Notables
Walter F. Starbuck, el protagonista de esta novela, comienza a contar su vida, inextricablemente unida a la historia de los Estados Unidos. Desde las ejecuciones de Sacco y Vanzetti hasta la voracidad de las multinacionales –sin olvidarse, por supuesto, de la Segunda Guerra Mundial–, Kurt Vonnegut se pasea con total libertad por el lado oscuro del siglo XX norteamericano y construye una sátira magistral sobre el poder y el dinero con las herramientas que nadie dominaba mejor que él: el sarcasmo, el ingenio, la invención, pero también la compasión y la ternura. Pájaro de celda es una novela cruel y cautivante, honesta y divertida, Vonnegut en estado puro.(Descripción del editor). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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