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The Resource Cat's cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, (electronic resource)
Cat's cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, (electronic resource)
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The item Cat's cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
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- Summary
- Cat's Cradle (1963) is Vonnegut's most ambitious novel, which put into the language terms like "wampeter", "kerass" and "granfalloon" as well as a structured religion, Boskonism and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master's Degree in anthropology, and in its sprawling compass and almost uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) invention, may be Vonnegut's best novel. Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer... except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker's "Ice 9" has the potential to convert all liquid to inert ice and thus destroy human existence; he is exiled to a remote island where Boskonism has enlisted all of its inhabitants and where religion and technology collaborate, with the help of a large cast of characters, to destroy civilization. Vonnegut's compassion and despair are expressed here through his grotesque elaboration of character and situation and also through his created religion which like Flannery O'Connor's "Church Without Christ" (in Wise Blood) acts to serve its adherents by removing them from individual responsibility. Vonnegut had always been taken seriously by science fiction readers and critics (a reception which indeed made him uncomfortable) but it was with Cat's Cradle that he began to be found and appreciated by a more general audience. His own ambivalence toward science, science fiction, religion and religious comfort comes through in every scene of this novel
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780795311963
- Label
- Cat's cradle
- Title
- Cat's cradle
- Statement of responsibility
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Title variation
- Cats cradle
- Subject
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Cat's Cradle (1963) is Vonnegut's most ambitious novel, which put into the language terms like "wampeter", "kerass" and "granfalloon" as well as a structured religion, Boskonism and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master's Degree in anthropology, and in its sprawling compass and almost uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) invention, may be Vonnegut's best novel. Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer... except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker's "Ice 9" has the potential to convert all liquid to inert ice and thus destroy human existence; he is exiled to a remote island where Boskonism has enlisted all of its inhabitants and where religion and technology collaborate, with the help of a large cast of characters, to destroy civilization. Vonnegut's compassion and despair are expressed here through his grotesque elaboration of character and situation and also through his created religion which like Flannery O'Connor's "Church Without Christ" (in Wise Blood) acts to serve its adherents by removing them from individual responsibility. Vonnegut had always been taken seriously by science fiction readers and critics (a reception which indeed made him uncomfortable) but it was with Cat's Cradle that he began to be found and appreciated by a more general audience. His own ambivalence toward science, science fiction, religion and religious comfort comes through in every scene of this novel
- Summary
- A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb
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- 060695
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
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- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
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- 790
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- fiction
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- End of the world
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Cat's cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11327566
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780795311963
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11327566
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Cat's cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11327566
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780795311963
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11327566
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- trueAtomic bomb
- trueChases
- trueDisasters
- trueDishonesty
- trueElectronic books
- trueEnd of the world
- End of the world -- Fiction
- trueFate and fatalism
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueHuman nature
- Humorous fiction
- trueIce
- trueIslands
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueModern classics
- truePolitics and culture
- trueReligion
- Satire
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- Science fiction
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Genre
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- Humorous fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueModern classics
- trueSatire
- trueSatirical fiction
- trueScience fiction
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