Jailbird

In this novel by Kurt Vonnegut, the hapless Walter F. Starbuck, a minor Watergate conspirator, is released from a minimum-security prison into a strange new chapter of his life. As his past collides with the gigantic RAMJAC Corporation and an old labor-organizer love, Vonnegut spins a comic, mournful meditation on American idealism, capitalism, and failure.