Flashback Friday
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Published in 1963
Pages: 270
Genre: Satire
“Call me Jonah.”
Cat’s Cradle is a story of satirical strangeness and absurd action. A man who calls himself by another name writes in retrospect regarding his research for a book about the end of the world and unwittingly finds himself present at the subject of his novel. Fraught with sarcasm and sardonic criticism of science, religion, technology, war, and many other topics, Cat’s Cradle showcases Kurt Vonnegut’s knack for the nearly nonsensical. (I need to lay off on the alliteration…yeesh)
The book begins with the narrator, John, describing his attempts to write a book about the day that the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima; he decides to research Dr. Felix Hoenikker, who was regarded as one of the fathers of the bomb. Through his research, Hoenikker’s strange personality and life story are revealed as John is thrust into…
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Good review. I actually work at a bookstore and always come across this book (yes, I know who Kurt Vonnegut is), but actually didn’t know what it was about. I might have to pick it up sometime….
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