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Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

by Benjamin Kunkel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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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. Writer Jonah's search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction is a funny and frightening satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780141189345
ISBN10 0141189347
Series/Work OL98454W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Books
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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