Deadeye dick - kurt vonnegut

The master at his quirky, provocative best.

-- Cosmopolitan Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonneguts 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 bulls-eye .

dolefully celebrates the randomness of life, treating private and public disasters with a kind of reckless whimsy.

You dont read Kurt Vonnegut for meaning exactly.

You read him for the sad-funny attitude of mind, the kind of weirdness that can interpret the worlds 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 lifes insanities into funny, profound sense.

That takes a masters touch.

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.