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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
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Description for Cat's Cradle
Hardcover. One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Experiment.
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.
Solution.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gollancz
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
S.F. Masterworks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780575081956
SKU
V9780575081956
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About Kurt Vonnegut
Born in 1922, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, during the saturation bombing which devastated the city near the end of the Second World War, an experience which formed the basis for the novel which made him a world-wide bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five. Cat's Cradle, first published in 1963, is his third novel.
Reviews for Cat's Cradle
A major novelist, and a major novel. - Sunday Telegraph. Resonate with our fears...very moving. - London Review of Books. In a line-up of literary originals, Kurt Vonnegut would have to start apart...He is brave, clever, honest, and wise beyond the gags. - Irish Times.