{"product_id":"9780575081956","title":"Cat's Cradle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kurt Vonnegut\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 May 2010 by Orion Publishing Co (Gollancz) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the S.F. Masterworks' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e205 x 136 x 21 | 244g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilationExperiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr 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. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56537178800503,"sku":"9780575081956","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780575081956.jpg?v=1768396907","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.live\/products\/9780575081956","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}