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DEAD-EYE DICK

A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life.

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  • "Qiang shou Dike"
  • "Deadeye Dick"

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  • "A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life."
  • "A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life."@en
  • "Kurt Vonnegut's satire about the loss of innocence and the randomness of life and death, in which fifty-year-old Rudy Waltz--who gained the nickname "Deadeye Dick" at the age of twelve after accidentally killing a pregnant woman--discusses the life of his father, who once saved the life of a young Adolf Hitler."@en
  • "Amid the horrors of a double murder and a city's annihilation by a neutron bomb, Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes the reader on a zany search for absolution and happiness."
  • "Amid the horrors of a double murder and a city's annihilation by a neutron bomb, Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes the reader on a zany search for absolution and happiness."@en
  • "A young boy's life is irrevocably changed when he accidently kills a pregnant woman while playing with one of his father's many rifles."@en
  • "Roman waarin aan de hand van onbedoelde ongelukken het noodlottige karakter van het menselijk bestaan wordt benadrukt."
  • "A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life. Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, tells the story of his life as a middle-aged man expatriate in Haiti. In addition to the other catastrophes of his life, his hometown back in the U.S. is virtually destroyed by a neutron bomb. At the ending of the book, it appears that Rudy, while he may not have fully come to terms with his actions, has at least come to live with them."
  • "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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "A funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes readers on a zany search for absolution and happiness in this tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe and who we say we are. "Vonnegut is ... a zany but moral mad scientist".--Time."@en
  • "A young boy's life is irrevocably changed when he accidentally kills a pregnant woman while playing with one of his father's many rifles."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Romány"
  • "Satire"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "American fiction"

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  • "Lige i øjet = (Deadeye Dick)"
  • "Qiang shou di ke"
  • "Rysio Snajper"
  • "Lige i øjet"@da
  • "Deadeye Dick. [Novel]"
  • "Ostré očko"
  • "Zielwasser : Roman"
  • "Точния мерник [Роман] / Кърт Вонегът; Прев. от англ. Петрушка Томова; С послесл. Г. Злобин"
  • "DEAD-EYE DICK"@en
  • "Deadeye dick"
  • "DEADEYE DICK"
  • "Ostroočko"
  • "Deadeye Dick A Novel"@en
  • "Kalmasilmä"
  • "Kalmasilmä"@fi
  • "Deadeye Dick : [a novel]"
  • "Tochnii︠a︡ mernik [Roman] / Kŭrt Vonegŭt; Prev. ot angl. Petrushka Tomova; S poslesl. G. Zlobin"@bg
  • "Qiang shou Dige"
  • "槍手狄克"
  • "Точния мерник"
  • "De korte roem van Deadeye Dick"
  • "Chiang shou ti ke"
  • "Tochnii︠a︡ mernik"
  • "Deadeye Dick"@sv
  • "Deadeye Dick"@en
  • "Deadeye Dick"
  • "Rysio snajper"@pl
  • "Rysio snajper"
  • "Dead-eye dick"@en

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