Cat’s Cradle

Cat’s Cradle

Published:
2009-11-04
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Publishers:
ISBN 13:
9780307567277
Meeting:
FBC Recommended R2.054
Pages:
304

Description:

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.  An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.  A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.

Author Details:

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his book "Slaughterhouse Five". First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels (including "The Sirens of Titan" in 1959 and "Cat’s Cradle" in 1963), four plays, and three short story collections as well as countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.