Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins by Kurt Vonnegut - ISBN: 9780141045443
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Ice-nine threatens all. Madness, love, and humour bloom at world’s end.
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Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins

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  • Paperback

    228 pages

  • Release Date

    29 June 2009

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Summary

Dr. Felix Hoenikker has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah’s search for its whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker’s three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the religion of Bokononism is practiced, to love, and to insanity. Told with deadpan humor and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut’s cult tale of global destruction is a funny and frightening satire on the end of the wor…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141045443
ISBN-10:0141045442
Author:Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:228
Release Date:29 June 2009
Weight:136g
Dimensions:180mm x 111mm x 19mm
Series:Popular Penguins
About The Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them- The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat’s Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991). Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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