Deadeye Dick

Zusatztext “A moving fable . . . Vonnegut! sweet cynic and ugly duckling! continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society.” — Playboy    “The master at his quirky! provocative best.” — Cosmopolitan   “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   “Good news for an American public which can pretty obviously use much of Vonnegut’s honesty! moral vision! and revulsion for mankind’s stupidities it can get. . . . In Deadeye Dick! the Vonnegut trademark with language—the simple! childlike rhetoric which has the effect of unmasking the absurdity of so much that we take for granted—remains in fine working order.” — San Diego Union   “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 Informationen zum Autor Kurt Vonnegut Klappentext "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 Leseprobe To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little pe...

Product details

• Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.05.1999
• EAN: 9780385334174
• ISBN: 978-0-385-33417-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 204 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature