The master at his quirky, provocative best.-- Cosmopolitan Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut\'s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. -- Glamour. very full of life. . . a wise and charming book . . . -- Houston Chronicle Endearing and enchanting .
On finishing the novel, the kitchen of your mind is a cleaner and more well-lighted place than it was before. . . -- Kansas City Star Playful and imaginative .
Vonnegut still has it.
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That takes a master\'s touch.
Vonnegut turns life\'s insanities into funny, profound sense.
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Funny how life turns out. the humor is natural and inborn; the insight usually purchased by his characters at painfully high cost. . .
Incredible plot constructions and inventive language continue to leap from his typewriter . . . -- USA Today Vonnegut is beguiling as ever .
You read him for the sad-funny attitude of mind, the kind of weirdness that can interpret the world\'s weirdness.
You don\'t read Kurt Vonnegut for meaning exactly. . . . dolefully celebrates the randomness of life, treating private and public disasters with a kind of reckless whimsy. . . --Worcester Sunday Telegram Hits the bull\'s-eye . a must for all Vonnegut fans. . . -- Playboy A brilliantly unconventional novel .
Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society. . .
Praise for Deadeye Dick A moving fable . and who we say we are. . .
Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe .
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.
The master at his quirky, provocative best.-- Cosmopolitan Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut\'s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence