Cat's Cradle

Paperback, 191 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 1969 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-11149-8
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5 stars (2 reviews)

first published 1963

32 editions

Great ideas, but dated in parts

4 stars

I love Vonnegut's style in both the way he evokes huge images and events with sparse words and in his ideas, like this most banal and final of apocalypses with the world ending in ice-nine. The problem is that as we get further from the period it was written in, the assumptions it was written under, especially about the role of women and non-white (and non-American) people in the narrative and society, jar even more with the inventiveness going on around them.