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Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

by Benjamin Kunkel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' 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. Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh? Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it . . .

Book Details

ISBN13 9780241951606
ISBN10 0241951607
Series/Work OL98454W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin
Pages 216
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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