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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.

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Cats Cradle

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    A Paperback / softback by Kurt Vonnegut, Benjamin Kunkel

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 April 2011
      ISBN-13 9780241951606
      978-0241951606
      ISBN-10 0241951607
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      One of the warmest, wisest, funniest voices to be found anywhere in fiction * Daily Telegraph *
      The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin 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 * New York Times *
      Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched -- J. G. Ballard

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