Cat's Cradle

Informationen zum Autor Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) was born in Indianapolis, USA. During the Second World War he was a prisoner in Germany and present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience he recounted in his famous novel Slaughterhouse Five (1969). His first novel, Piano Player , was published in 1951. This was followed by a considerable outlay of work, including the novels The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle , Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Hocus Pocus . He is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of his generation. Klappentext Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kunkel, Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut Kurt
• Assisted by: Benjamin Kunkel (Introduction), Kunkel Benjamin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780241951606
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95160-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Essential Penguin; Penguin Essentials; Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General