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Cat's Cradle Audio Book
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Cat's Cradle
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Reader: Tony Roberts
A satirical commentary on humanity's madness. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this classic yarn tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny. Includes interview with the author. "Roberts brings tremendous energy to his reading, projecting a sardonic tone perfectly suited to Vonnegut."—Publishers Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Publish Date: 11/06/2007
ISBN: 9780060898731
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Synopsis:
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb, in the author's satirical novel about the apocalypse and the madness of humankind. Book available.
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Author Bio:
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a satirical essayist and novelist who blended science-fiction and humor with literary themes and topics of philosophical weight, become an icon of 1960 and 1970s counterculture. A bestseller who also experimented with form, genre, and voice, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain (the writer who Vonnegut most admired) for his fusion of cynicism, humanitarianism, comedy, and social critique. Born during the depression, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was the youngest of three children. His father was an architect and his mother suffered from bouts of severe mental illness, eventually committing suicide during World War II, an event that would haunt Vonnegut his entire life. Vonnegut enlisted in the army in 1943, and was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. He was a prisoner of war in Dresden and was working in an underground meat locker during the firebombing of the city in 1945; in the aftermath, he worked disposing the thousands of charred corpses. Upon his return to the states, Vonnegut married his high school sweetheart and had three children; they also adopted his sister's children after she and her husband died within a day of each other. Vonnegut worked as a police reporter and studied anthropology in the M.A. program at the University of Chicago, but his thesis on "The Fluctuations Between Good and Evil in Simple Tales" was rejected. He went to work as a public relations writer for General Electric, taught emotionally disturbed children, and began publishing his first short stories. In 1952 he published his first novel, PLAYER PIANO, a science-fiction send-up of corporate culture. His science-fiction novels, such as CAT'S CRADLE, were filled with outlandish concepts such as "Karass" (an unwitting group of people who serve some larger purpose) and "Foma" (harmless untruths), and attracted a small but devoted cult-following. His semi-autobiographical time-traveling novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, which dealt deeply with his experiences during the war, brought him worldwide fame, and from that point on his novels have met with commercial and mostly critical success. However in the 1980s Vonnegut fell into a deep depression, culminating with an attempted suicide in 1984. He published his last novel, TIMEQUAKE, in 1997. In 2005, Vonnegut, a fierce pacifist, human-rights, and free-speech advocate, published a best-selling collection of essays, MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. In April 2007, several weeks after falling and suffering brain damage, Vonnegut passed away.
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