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Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon &, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...

Book Details

ISBN13 9780140285604
ISBN10 0140285601
Series/Work OL98454W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

813 v947c 2010 American Fantasy fiction American fiction American fiction (fictional works by one author) Classic Literature End of the world End of the world--fiction Fiction Fictional works [publication type] Fiction, humorous Fiction, humorous, general Fiction, science fiction, general Fin du monde Humor (Fiction) Large type books Ps3572.o5 c3 2010 Romans, nouvelles Satire Science Fiction Spanish fiction

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