Cat's Cradle
$30.02
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2008
Summary
First Modern Classics edition for one of Vonnegut’s most entertaining novels.
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.
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 where…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189345 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141189347 |
| Author: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. During the Second World War he was a prisoner in Germany and present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience he recounted in his famous novel Slaughterhouse Five (1969). His first novel, Piano Player, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, including- The Sirens of Titan, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Hocus Pocus. Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007.
Benjamin Kunkel (born in 1972 in Colorado) is an American novelist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His first novel, Indecision, was published in 2005.
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