Cat's Cradle

Paperback, 287 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2006 by Dial Press.

ISBN:
978-0-385-33348-1
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OCLC Number:
64206152

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5 stars (2 reviews)

One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb. This is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

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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.

Subjects

  • End of the world -- Fiction