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Content levels
ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentMild
LanguageModerate
Trigger warnings
MurderDeathViolenceRadioactive ExposureDismembermentMass DeathGuiltTrauma
Positive tags
Dark HumorRedemption ArcSelf-Discovery
Tropes
Soft SFSocial SFDystopiaPost-ApocalypticMorally Gray ProtagonistReluctant Hero
Themes
Innocence LostGuilt and AbsolutionIdentitySatire of American LifeConsequences of ViolenceSearch for MeaningExistentialism
Synopsis
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.
Tags
Literary FictionSatireBlack ComedyPhilosophical Fiction