Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness.
One of the warmest, wisest, funniest voices to be found anywhere in fiction * Daily Telegraph *
The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to beHe is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he makes your hair stand on end * New York Times *
Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched -- J. G. Ballard
The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to beHe is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he makes your hair stand on end * New York Times *
Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched -- J. G. Ballard
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and was followed by The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); a collection of short stories, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988), Hocus Pocus (1990) and Timequake (1997). He is also the author of a number of collections of short stories and essays. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241951606 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241951607 |
| Title | Cat's Cradle |
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Series | Penguin Essentials |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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