Cat's Cradle

By
Kurt Vonnegut
Penguin Books Ltd
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining
fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists,
beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.

'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'

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.

Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift
to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh?

Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult
tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing
the end and, worse still, surviving it . . .

'The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that
the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he
is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he
makes your hair stand on end' New York Times

'One of the warmest, wisest, funniest voices to be found anywhere

in fiction' Daily Telegraph

'Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never
flinched' J. G. Ballard
 Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the
universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short
stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published
in 1951 and was followed by The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother
Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater
(1964), Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); a collection of short
stories, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions
(1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979),
Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988), Hocus
Pocus (1990) and Timequake (1997). He is also the author of a
number of collections of short stories and essays. Kurt Vonnegut
died in 2007.

Penguin Books Ltd

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