Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
ISBN: 9780141045443
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 228
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Dr Felix Hoenikker, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for its whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction is a funny and frightening satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind.
ISBN: 9780141045443
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 228
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Dr Felix Hoenikker, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for its whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction is a funny and frightening satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind.