The master at his quirky, provocative best.
- Cosmopolitan
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