Deadeye Dick: A Novel, Packaging May Vary

Deadeye Dick: A Novel, Packaging May Vary

<b>€œThe master at his quirky, provocative best.€€"<i>Cosmopolitan</i></b><br><br><i>Deadeye Dick</i> 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.<br><br><b>Praise for<i> Deadeye Dick</i></b><br><br>€œA moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society.€<b>€"<i>Playboy </i></b><br> <br>€œA brilliantly unconventional novel . . . a must for all Vonnegut fans.€<b><i>€"Worcester Sunday Telegram</i></b><br> <br>€œHits 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.€<b>€"<i>USA Today</i></b><br> <br>€œVonnegut 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.€<b>€"<i>Kansas City Star</i></b><br>  <br>€œPlayful and imaginative . . . On finishing the novel, the kitchen of your mind is a cleaner and more well-lighted place than it was before.€<b>€"<i>Houston Chronicle</i></b><br> <br>€œEndearing and enchanting . . . a wise and charming book . . . very full of life.€<b>€"<i>Glamour</i></b>