Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

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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 th at, 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 begi n 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’ The New York Times.

Jazyk:
Anglický
Počet strán:
216
Vydavateľstvo:
Penguin Books
Typ väzby:
Brožovaná