Vonnegut is "the comic of poet weightlessness, the magician who freshens for a time, in grown-ups, knowledge of the insides of unsettledness... The grand old Vonnegutian comedy of causelessness's still holds center stage... This very good writer is good medicine." - The New York Times Book Review
WATCH OUT FOR LIFE. IT'LL GET YA!
In the euphoria of colossal innocence, he shot a bullet in the air. By the time if fell to earth, twelve-year-old Rudy Waltz was condemned as a double murderer; whose ultimate fate rested on a radioactive mantelpiece, and his father, who - in his salad days - had found his best and only friend in a hapless young art student, Adolf Hitler. It was an odd beginning, if not an auspicious one. What can you expect when you're born in an Ohio city destined to be depopulated by a "friendly" neutron bomb? And - after all - it was only the beginning. As for the rest, ask Rudy, forever to be known as...
DEADEYE DICK
"First-class Vonnegut!" - Associated Press
"A marvelous entertainment... The author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five has never offered a more wacky view of the world." - People
"A moving fable of passive resistance. Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society." - Playboy
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