Oh boy. What to say about Kurt Vonnegut? To call him a satirist doesn’t even begin to give him credit. To call his humor simply ’dark’ somehow writes off the intensity and complexity behind the jabs and jokes. His subject in this book is Walter F. Starbuck, the lowest-level member of the Nixon cabinet, a mere youth caught up in the infamous Watergate scandal and sentenced to jail. On his first day of freedom, he runs into old enemies, old friends, and old flames, and manages to end up on top of the world before it crumbles beneath him yet again. Kurt Vonnegut is simply an incredible writer and beyond that, you’ll have to read the book. Truly a new classic American novelist, or to paraphrase one critic, Mr. Vonnegut is a champion of the simple and direct style, all but lost in most modern novels. Bravo.
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