Cat's Cradle

1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Original title: Cat's Cradle
Language: English
Genre: Satire , science fiction
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date: March 18, 1963 ( 1963-03-18 )
Publication place: United States
Media type: Print (hardcover and paperback)
Isbn: 0-385-33348-X
Preceded by: Mother Night
Followed by: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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Instance of: literary work
Named after: cat's cradle
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Genre: science fiction
Country of origin: United States
Followed by: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Follows: Mother Night
Image: Cat's Cradle (1st ed. cover) - Vonnegut.jpg

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publication date: 1963-00-00
title: Le Berceau du chat
language of work or name: English language
first line: Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
last line: This is what I read: “If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”
set in environment: fictional country
nominated for: Hugo Award for Best Novel
form of creative work: novel

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Encyclopedic overview

Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.

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