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Deadeye Dick
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors--a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb--Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are.
Praise for Deadeye Dick
"A moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society."--Playboy
"A brilliantly unconventional novel . . . a must for all Vonnegut fans."--Worcester Sunday Telegram
"Hits the bull's-eye . . . dolefully celebrates the randomness of life, treating private and public disasters with a kind of reckless whimsy. . . . You don't read Kurt Vonnegut for meaning exactly. You read him for the sad-funny attitude of mind, the kind of weirdness that can interpret the world's weirdness."--USA Today
"Vonnegut is beguiling as ever . . . Incredible plot constructions and inventive language continue to leap from his typewriter . . . the humor is natural and inborn; the insight usually purchased by his characters at painfully high cost. Funny how life turns out. Even funnier how Mr. Vonnegut turns life's insanities into funny, profound sense. That takes a master's touch. Mr. Vonnegut still has it."--Kansas City Star
"Playful and imaginative . . . On finishing the novel, the kitchen of your mind is a cleaner and more well-lighted place than it was before."--Houston Chronicle
"Endearing and enchanting . . . a wise and charming book . . . very full of life."--Glamour
Book Details
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publish Date: May 11st, 1999
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780385334174
- Categories: • Literary• Satire• Thrillers - Psychological
About the Author
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What people are saying
Never give up hope. It is the guiding light of recovery. The ROAD TO FORT WORTH - The story of my recovery from panic disorder & alcoholism https://t.co/Xx43aS7SD0
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca Good
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages–they haven't ended yet.” PS. – Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick
“I didn’t mention the other human tears with which our earth is soaked from crust to core” -Ivan, form Dostoyevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov”
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you” – Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick
Praise for this book
"The master at his quirky, provocative best."--Cosmopolitan
"A brilliantly unconventional novel . . . a must for all Vonnegut fans."--Worcester Sunday Telegram
"Hits the bull's-eye . . . dolefully celebrates the randomness of life, treating private and public disasters with a kind of reckless whimsy. . . . You don't read Kurt Vonnegut for meaning exactly. You read him for the sad-funny attitude of mind, the kind of weirdness that can interpret the world's weirdness."--USA Today
"Vonnegut is beguiling as ever . . . Incredible plot constructions and inventive language continue to leap from his typewriter . . . the humor is natural and inborn; the insight usually purchased by his characters at painfully high cost. Funny how life turns out. Even funnier how Mr. Vonnegut turns life's insanities into funny, profound sense. That takes a master's touch. Mr. Vonnegut still has it."--Kansas City Star
"Good news for an American public which can pretty obviously use much of Vonnegut's honesty, moral vision, and revulsion for mankind's stupidities it can get. . . . In Deadeye Dick, the Vonnegut trademark with language--the simple, childlike rhetoric which has the effect of unmasking the absurdity of so much that we take for granted--remains in fine working order."--San Diego Union
"Playful and imaginative . . . On finishing the novel, the kitchen of your mind is a cleaner and more well-lighted place than it was before."--Houston Chronicle
"Endearing and enchanting . . . a wise and charming book . . . very full of life."--Glamour
What people are saying
Never give up hope. It is the guiding light of recovery. The ROAD TO FORT WORTH - The story of my recovery from panic disorder & alcoholism https://t.co/Xx43aS7SD0
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick