Cat's cradle /
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut. - Dial Press trade paperback edition. - xiii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
The Day the World Ended Nice, Nice, Very Nice Folly A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils Letter from a Pre-Med Bug Fights The Illustrious Hoenikkers Newt's Thing with Zinka Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes Secret Agent X-9 Protein End of the World Delight The Jumping-Off Place When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases Merry Christmas Back to Kindergarten The Girl Pool The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth No More Mud Ice-Nine The Marines March on Member of the Yellow Press The Last Batch of Brownies What a Wampeter is The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker What God is Men from Mars Mayonnaise Gone, But Not Forgotten Only Sleeping Another Breed Dynamite Money An Ungrateful Man Vin-Dit Hobby Shop Meow A Modern Major General Barracuda Capital of the World Fata Morgana House of Hope and Mercy A Karass Built for Two Bicycles for Afghanistan The Demonstrator Communist Sympathizers Why Americans are Hated The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar Dynamic Tension Just Like Saint Augustine A Fish Pitched Up by an Angry Sea A Nice Midget O.K., Mom No Pain The President of Fabri-Tek Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers Never Index Your Own Book A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage The Queasy Dream Tyranny With A Difference Fasten Your Seat Belts An Underprivileged Nation What A Corporal Was Worth Why Hazel Wasn't Scared Reverent And Free Peace And Plenty A Good Time To Come To San Lorenzo The Strongest Thing There Is Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuh! Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz A Big Mosaic Tutored By Bokonon The Happiness Of Being An American The Pissant Hilton Black Death Cat's Cradle Give My Regards To Albert Scweitzer Julian Castle Agrees With Newt That Everything Is Meaningless Aspirin And Boko-Maru Ring Of Steel Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse The Waterfall Strainers A White Bride For The Son Of A Pullman Porter Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches The Break-Even Point Blackout A Pack Of Foma Two Little Jugs The Cut Of My Jib Why Frank Couldn't Be President Duffle Only One Catch Mona On The Poet's Celebration Of His First Boko-Maru How I Almost Lost My Mona The Highest Mountain I See The Hook Bell, Book, And Chicken In A Hatbox The Stinking Christian Last Rites Dyot Meet Mat Down The Oubliette Goes Frank Like My Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon Enemies Of Freedom A Medical Opinion On The Effects Of A Writers' Strike Sulfathiazole Pain-Killer What Bokononists Say When They Commit Suicide Feast Your Eyes! Frank Tells Us What To Do Frank Defends Himself The Fourteenth Book Time Out Newt's Mother's Reticule History When I Felt The Bullet Enter My Heart As It Happened The Grand Ah-Whoom Sanctuary The Iron Maiden And The Oubliette Mona Thanks Me To Whom It May Concern I Am Slow To Answer The Swiss Family Robinson Of Mice And Men Frank's Ant Farm The Tasmanians Soft Pipes, Play On The End 1 1 -- 2 2 -- 3 4 -- 4 5 -- 5 8 -- 6 13 -- 7 18 -- 8 19 -- 9 20 -- 10 21 -- 11 24 -- 12 25 -- 13 27 -- 14 30 -- 15 32 -- 16 35 -- 17 37 -- 18 39 -- 19 42 -- 20 44 -- 21 47 -- 22 48 -- 23 50 -- 24 52 -- 25 53 -- 26 54 -- 27 55 -- 28 58 -- 29 60 -- 30 61 -- 31 63 -- 32 64 -- 33 66 -- 34 69 -- 35 73 -- 36 77 -- 37 79 -- 38 81 -- 39 82 -- 40 84 -- 41 86 -- 42 88 -- 43 92 -- 44 96 -- 45 98 -- 46 99 -- 47 101 -- 48 103 -- 49 104 -- 50 109 -- 51 110 -- 52 114 -- 53 116 -- 54 118 -- 55 119 -- 56. 123 -- 57. 125 -- 58. 127 -- 59. 129 -- 60. 132 -- 61. 134 -- 62. 136 -- 63. 137 -- 64. 139 -- 65. 141 -- 66. 144 -- 67. 147 -- 68. 149 -- 69. 150 -- 70. 153 -- 71. 154 -- 72. 156 -- 73. 159 -- 74. 163 -- 75. 166 -- 76. 168 -- 77. 170 -- 78. 172 -- 79. 174 -- 80. 176 -- 81. 180 -- 82. 183 -- 83. 185 -- 84. 187 -- 85. 189 -- 86. 191 -- 87. 194 -- 88. 197 -- 89. 199 -- 90. 201 -- 91. 203 -- 92. 205 -- 93. 206 -- 94. 210 -- 95. 212 -- 96. 213 -- 97. 216 -- 98. 219 -- 99. 220 -- 100. 223 -- 101. 225 -- 102. 227 -- 103. 230 -- 104. 232 -- 105. 235 -- 106. 237 -- 107. 239 -- 108. 240 -- 109. 242 -- 110. 244 -- 111. 245 -- 112. 248 -- 113. 250 -- 114. 252 -- 115. 257 -- 116. 259 -- 117. 261 -- 118. 263 -- 119. 267 -- 120. 270 -- 121. 273 -- 122. 275 -- 123. 276 -- 124. 279 -- 125. 282 -- 126. 284 -- 127. 286.
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.
790 Lexile
038533348X 9780385333481 0808520695 9780808520696
2005285166
End of the world--Fiction.
Fiction.
Satire.
PS3572.O5 / C3 2006
813/.54
Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut. - Dial Press trade paperback edition. - xiii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
The Day the World Ended Nice, Nice, Very Nice Folly A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils Letter from a Pre-Med Bug Fights The Illustrious Hoenikkers Newt's Thing with Zinka Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes Secret Agent X-9 Protein End of the World Delight The Jumping-Off Place When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases Merry Christmas Back to Kindergarten The Girl Pool The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth No More Mud Ice-Nine The Marines March on Member of the Yellow Press The Last Batch of Brownies What a Wampeter is The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker What God is Men from Mars Mayonnaise Gone, But Not Forgotten Only Sleeping Another Breed Dynamite Money An Ungrateful Man Vin-Dit Hobby Shop Meow A Modern Major General Barracuda Capital of the World Fata Morgana House of Hope and Mercy A Karass Built for Two Bicycles for Afghanistan The Demonstrator Communist Sympathizers Why Americans are Hated The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar Dynamic Tension Just Like Saint Augustine A Fish Pitched Up by an Angry Sea A Nice Midget O.K., Mom No Pain The President of Fabri-Tek Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers Never Index Your Own Book A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage The Queasy Dream Tyranny With A Difference Fasten Your Seat Belts An Underprivileged Nation What A Corporal Was Worth Why Hazel Wasn't Scared Reverent And Free Peace And Plenty A Good Time To Come To San Lorenzo The Strongest Thing There Is Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuh! Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz A Big Mosaic Tutored By Bokonon The Happiness Of Being An American The Pissant Hilton Black Death Cat's Cradle Give My Regards To Albert Scweitzer Julian Castle Agrees With Newt That Everything Is Meaningless Aspirin And Boko-Maru Ring Of Steel Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse The Waterfall Strainers A White Bride For The Son Of A Pullman Porter Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches The Break-Even Point Blackout A Pack Of Foma Two Little Jugs The Cut Of My Jib Why Frank Couldn't Be President Duffle Only One Catch Mona On The Poet's Celebration Of His First Boko-Maru How I Almost Lost My Mona The Highest Mountain I See The Hook Bell, Book, And Chicken In A Hatbox The Stinking Christian Last Rites Dyot Meet Mat Down The Oubliette Goes Frank Like My Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon Enemies Of Freedom A Medical Opinion On The Effects Of A Writers' Strike Sulfathiazole Pain-Killer What Bokononists Say When They Commit Suicide Feast Your Eyes! Frank Tells Us What To Do Frank Defends Himself The Fourteenth Book Time Out Newt's Mother's Reticule History When I Felt The Bullet Enter My Heart As It Happened The Grand Ah-Whoom Sanctuary The Iron Maiden And The Oubliette Mona Thanks Me To Whom It May Concern I Am Slow To Answer The Swiss Family Robinson Of Mice And Men Frank's Ant Farm The Tasmanians Soft Pipes, Play On The End 1 1 -- 2 2 -- 3 4 -- 4 5 -- 5 8 -- 6 13 -- 7 18 -- 8 19 -- 9 20 -- 10 21 -- 11 24 -- 12 25 -- 13 27 -- 14 30 -- 15 32 -- 16 35 -- 17 37 -- 18 39 -- 19 42 -- 20 44 -- 21 47 -- 22 48 -- 23 50 -- 24 52 -- 25 53 -- 26 54 -- 27 55 -- 28 58 -- 29 60 -- 30 61 -- 31 63 -- 32 64 -- 33 66 -- 34 69 -- 35 73 -- 36 77 -- 37 79 -- 38 81 -- 39 82 -- 40 84 -- 41 86 -- 42 88 -- 43 92 -- 44 96 -- 45 98 -- 46 99 -- 47 101 -- 48 103 -- 49 104 -- 50 109 -- 51 110 -- 52 114 -- 53 116 -- 54 118 -- 55 119 -- 56. 123 -- 57. 125 -- 58. 127 -- 59. 129 -- 60. 132 -- 61. 134 -- 62. 136 -- 63. 137 -- 64. 139 -- 65. 141 -- 66. 144 -- 67. 147 -- 68. 149 -- 69. 150 -- 70. 153 -- 71. 154 -- 72. 156 -- 73. 159 -- 74. 163 -- 75. 166 -- 76. 168 -- 77. 170 -- 78. 172 -- 79. 174 -- 80. 176 -- 81. 180 -- 82. 183 -- 83. 185 -- 84. 187 -- 85. 189 -- 86. 191 -- 87. 194 -- 88. 197 -- 89. 199 -- 90. 201 -- 91. 203 -- 92. 205 -- 93. 206 -- 94. 210 -- 95. 212 -- 96. 213 -- 97. 216 -- 98. 219 -- 99. 220 -- 100. 223 -- 101. 225 -- 102. 227 -- 103. 230 -- 104. 232 -- 105. 235 -- 106. 237 -- 107. 239 -- 108. 240 -- 109. 242 -- 110. 244 -- 111. 245 -- 112. 248 -- 113. 250 -- 114. 252 -- 115. 257 -- 116. 259 -- 117. 261 -- 118. 263 -- 119. 267 -- 120. 270 -- 121. 273 -- 122. 275 -- 123. 276 -- 124. 279 -- 125. 282 -- 126. 284 -- 127. 286.
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.
790 Lexile
038533348X 9780385333481 0808520695 9780808520696
2005285166
End of the world--Fiction.
Fiction.
Satire.
PS3572.O5 / C3 2006
813/.54