Cats Cradle

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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 whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric 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 the end, that for all of us, is nigh ...

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141189345
Published: May 2008

Number of pages: 224
Width: 130 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 14 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd