Kurt Vonnegut’s 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” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
“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
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