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  Cat's Cradle (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Kurt Vonnegut, Introduction by Benjamin Kunkel

  

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  Short Description for Cat's CradleDr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 01 May 2008
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Science Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780141189345 ISBN 10: 0141189347
  • Sales rank: 3,088

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• 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...