Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' 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

she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine

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nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother

‘Powerful and compelling - Delia Owens

and all that David Copperfield kind of crap

and tells her story to Bilal

Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment

and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years

soulful intensity

And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor

The result is a unique mix of nature