Deadeye Dick: A Novel

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