Cat's Cradle
$23.70
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2010
Summary
Ice-Nine Apocalypse: A Cat’s Cradle of Destruction
Experiment.
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.
Solution.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575081956 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0575081953 |
| Series: | S.f. Masterworks |
| Author: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Gollancz |
| Imprint: | Gateway |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 503g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A major novelist, and a major novel. - Sunday Telegraph.
Resonate with our fears…very moving. - London Review of Books.
In a line-up of literary originals, Kurt Vonnegut would have to start apart…He is brave, clever, honest, and wise beyond the gags. - Irish Times.
About The Author
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) Born in 1922, Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, during the saturation bombing which devastated the city near the end of the Second World War, an experience which formed the basis for the novel which made him a world-wide bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five. Cat’s Cradle, first published in 1963, is his third novel.
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