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Cat's Cradle

✍ Scribed by Vonnegut, Kurt

Book ID
100672611
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Year
2010
Tongue
en-US
Weight
112 KB
Edition
RosettaBooks edition
Category
Fiction
City
New York, N.Y.
ISBN
0795311966

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Cat's Cradle (1963) is Vonnegut's most ambitious novel, which put into the language terms like "wampeter", "kerass" and "granfalloon" as well as a structured religion, Boskonism and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master's Degree in anthropology, and in its sprawling compass and almost uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) invention, may be Vonnegut's best novel.

Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer... except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker's "Ice 9" has the potential to convert all liquid to inert ice and thus destroy human existence; he is exiled to a remote island where Boskonism has enlisted all of its inhabitants and where...

✦ Subjects

End of the world -- Fiction

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