{"product_id":"timequake-book-kurt-vonnegut-9780399137372","title":"Timequake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e an \u003ci\u003eCat's Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e comes Kurt Vonnegut's \u003ci\u003eTimequake--\u003c\/i\u003eWry and trenchant.highly entertaining.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade, for good or ill, a second time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49506635645201,"sku":"CIN0399137378A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511995015441,"sku":"GOR002824667","price":5.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725354901777,"sku":"CIN0399137378G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49757995368721,"sku":"CIN0399137378VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0399137378.jpg?v=1750878613","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/timequake-book-kurt-vonnegut-9780399137372","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}