SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is 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, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us a
Deadeye Dick: A Novel
โ Scribed by Kurt Vonnegut
- Publisher
- Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385334174
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โฆ Synopsis
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegutโs funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsโa double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombโRudy 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Review
โA moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society.โโ Playboy
โThe master at his quirky, provocative best.โโ Cosmopolitan
โVonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.โโ Time
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers.โ Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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