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Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982. [1] Plot summary. The novel's main character, Rudy Waltz, or "Deadeye Dick", commits accidental manslaughter as a child when he shoots a gun out of a window and fatally strikes a pregnant woman.
- Novel
- Kurt Vonnegut
- 1982
- Delacorte Press
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated musical comedy film directed by Bill Melendez and designed by Ronald Searle, based on the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Jan 1, 2001 · 3.83. 29,071 ratings1,207 reviews. 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 ...
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- Paperback
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Summaries. Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. Together, they battle pirates and an evil magician before discovering that the Ultimate Secret is nothing but LOVE!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982. Plot Summary. Deadeye Dick (1982), a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, tells the story of Rudy Waltz, a Midwestern expatriate living in Port-au-Prince who is guilt-stricken over a tragic childhood accident that resulted in the death of a pregnant woman.
Deadeye Dick forces readers to confront the emptiness, loneliness, and craziness of contemporary life. As in previous novels, Vonnegut’s attention in Deadeye Dick focuses on the lack of...
