|
Cat's Cradle
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Cat's Cradle
|
Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Kurt Vonnegut
|
Series | S.F. Masterworks |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:224 | Dimensions(mm): Height 202,Width 130 |
|
Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780575081956
|
Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
---|
Audience | |
|
Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
|
Imprint |
Gateway
|
Publication Date |
20 May 2010 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
|
Description
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 its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
Author Biography
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.
ReviewsA 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.
|