079530272X ![Cat's cradle [electronic resource]. Vonnegut Kurt.](/o/arena-portlet/portletResources?resource=resourceCover&portalSiteId=78323388&recordId=079530272X&agencyName=AUKGUERNSEY&width=0&height=0)
eBook Cat's cradle [electronic resource]. Vonnegut Kurt.
Publication year: 2002
Language: English
Media type eBook
Edition: ebook.
Category: Fiction
Publisher: RosettaBooks,
Resource type: Electronic material
ISBN: 9780795302725 (electronic bk) 9780795311963 (electronic bk)
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Cat's Cradle (1963) is Vonnegut's most ambitious novel, which put into the language terms like "wampeter", "kerass" and "granfalloon" as well as a structured religion, Boskonism and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master's Degree in anthropology, and in its sprawling compass and almost uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) invention, may be Vonnegut's best novel. Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer... except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker's "Ice 9" has the potential to convert all liquid to inert ice and thus destroy human existence; he is exiled to a remote island where Boskonism has enlisted all of its inhabitants and where religion and tec
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