Cat's Cradle

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $27.99 AUD
  • : 9780141189345
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • :
  • : 0.17
  • : June 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 13mm
  • :
  • : March 2008
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • :
  • :
  • : Kurt Vonnegut
  • : Paperback
  • :
  • :
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • :
  • : oc2008014884
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9780141189345
9780141189345

Description

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 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 the end, that for all of us, is nigh... First published 1964; this edition 2008.

Author description

?