The Resource Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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The item Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
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- Summary
- Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Note
- "A Seymour Lawrence book."
- Contents
-
- 1: Day the world ended -- 2: Nice, nice, very nice -- 3: Folly -- 4: Tentative tangling of tendrils -- 5: Letter from a pre-med -- 6: Bug fights -- 7: Illustrious hoenikkers -- 8: Newt's thing with Zinka -- 9: Vice-president in charge of volcanoes -- 10: Secret agent X-9 -- 11: Protein -- 12: End of the world delight -- 13: Jumping-off place -- 14: When automobiles had cut-glass vases -- 15: Merry Christmas -- 16: Back to Kindergarten -- 17: Girl pool -- 18: Most valuable commodity on earth -- 19: No more mud -- 20: Ice-nine -- 21: Marines march on -- 22: Member of the yellow press -- 23: Last batch of brownies -- 24: What a wampeter is -- 25: Main thing about Dr Hoenikker -- 26: What God is -- 27: Men from Mars -- 28: Mayonnaise -- 29: Gone, but not forgotten -- 30: Only sleeping -- 31: Another breed -- 32: Dynamite money -- 33: Ungrateful man -- 34: Vin-dit -- 35: Hobby shop -- 36: Meow -- 37: Modern Major General -- 38: Barracuda capital of the world -- 39: Fata Morgana -- 40: House of hope and mercy -- 41: Karass built for two -- 42: Bicycles for Afghanistan -- 43: Demonstrator -- 44: Communist sympathizers -- 45: Why Americans are hated -- 46: Bokononist method for handling Caesar -- 47: Dynamic tension -- 48: Just like Saint Augustine -- 49: Fish pitched up by an angry sea -- 50: Nice midget -- 51: O K mom -- 52: No pain -- 53: President of Fabri-Tek -- 54: Communist, Nazis, Royalists, parachutists, and draft dodgers -- 55: Never index your own book -- 56: Self-supporting squirrel cage -- 57: Queasy dream -- 58: Tyranny with a difference -- 59: Fasten your seat belts -- 60: Underprivileged nation -- 61: What a corporal was worth -- 62: Why Hazel wasn't scared -- 63: Reverent and free -- 64: Peace and plenty -- 65: Good time to come to San Lorenzo -- 66: Strongest thing there is -- 67: HY-u-o-ook-kuh! -- 68: Hoon-year mora-toorz -- 69: Big mosaic -- 70: Tutored by Bokonon -- 71: Happiness of being an American -- 72: Pissant Hilton -- 73: Black death -- 74: Cat's cradle -- 75: Give my regards to Albert Schweitzer -- 76: Julian Castle agrees with Newt that everything is meaningless -- 77: Aspirin and Boko-Maru -- 78: Ring of steel -- 79: Why McCabe's soul grew coarse -- 80: Waterfall strainers -- 81: White bride for the son of a Pullman porter -- 82: Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo -- 83: Dr Schlichter von Koenigswald approaches the break-even point -- 84: Blackout -- 85: Pack of Foma -- 86: Two little jugs -- 87: Cut of my jib -- 88: Why Frank couldn't be president -- 89: Duffle -- 90: Only one catch -- 91: Mona -- 92: On the poet's celebration of his first Boko-Maru -- 93: How I almost lost my Mona -- 94: Highest mountain -- 95: I see the hook -- 96: Bell, book, and chicken in a hatbox -- 97: Stinking Christian -- 98: Last rites -- 99: Dyot meet mat -- 100: Down the oubliette goes Frank
- 101: Like my predecessors, I outlaw Bokonon -- 102: Enemies of freedom -- 103: Medical opinion on the effects of a writers' strike -- 104: Sulfathiazole -- 105: Pain-killer -- 106: What Bokononists say when they commit suicide -- 107: Feast your eyes! -- 108: Frank tells us what to do -- 109: Frank defends himself -- 110: Fourteenth book -- 111: Time out -- 112: Newt's mother's reticule -- 113: History -- 114: When I felt the bullet enter my heart -- 115: As it happened -- 116: Grand ah-whoom -- 117: Sanctuary -- 118: Iron maiden and the oubliette -- 119: Mona thanks me -- 120: To whom it may concern -- 121: I am slow to answer -- 122: Swiss family Robinson -- 123: Of mice and men -- 124: Frank's ant farm -- 125: Tasmanians -- 126: Soft pipes, play on -- 127: End
- Label
- Cat's cradle
- Title
- Cat's cradle
- Statement of responsibility
- [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Cat's Cradle travels from the home turf of Vonnegut's imagination, Ilium, N.Y. to a Caribbean banana republic where an illicit religion called Bokononism is practiced, as a sense of doom (in the form of icenine) overtakes mankind
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Dewey number
- 813/.5/4
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
-
- PS3572.O5
- PZ4.V948
- PS3572.O5
- LC item number
-
- C3 1998
- Cat4
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- End of the world
- End of the world
- Label
- Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Note
- "A Seymour Lawrence book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 1: Day the world ended -- 2: Nice, nice, very nice -- 3: Folly -- 4: Tentative tangling of tendrils -- 5: Letter from a pre-med -- 6: Bug fights -- 7: Illustrious hoenikkers -- 8: Newt's thing with Zinka -- 9: Vice-president in charge of volcanoes -- 10: Secret agent X-9 -- 11: Protein -- 12: End of the world delight -- 13: Jumping-off place -- 14: When automobiles had cut-glass vases -- 15: Merry Christmas -- 16: Back to Kindergarten -- 17: Girl pool -- 18: Most valuable commodity on earth -- 19: No more mud -- 20: Ice-nine -- 21: Marines march on -- 22: Member of the yellow press -- 23: Last batch of brownies -- 24: What a wampeter is -- 25: Main thing about Dr Hoenikker -- 26: What God is -- 27: Men from Mars -- 28: Mayonnaise -- 29: Gone, but not forgotten -- 30: Only sleeping -- 31: Another breed -- 32: Dynamite money -- 33: Ungrateful man -- 34: Vin-dit -- 35: Hobby shop -- 36: Meow -- 37: Modern Major General -- 38: Barracuda capital of the world -- 39: Fata Morgana -- 40: House of hope and mercy -- 41: Karass built for two -- 42: Bicycles for Afghanistan -- 43: Demonstrator -- 44: Communist sympathizers -- 45: Why Americans are hated -- 46: Bokononist method for handling Caesar -- 47: Dynamic tension -- 48: Just like Saint Augustine -- 49: Fish pitched up by an angry sea -- 50: Nice midget -- 51: O K mom -- 52: No pain -- 53: President of Fabri-Tek -- 54: Communist, Nazis, Royalists, parachutists, and draft dodgers -- 55: Never index your own book -- 56: Self-supporting squirrel cage -- 57: Queasy dream -- 58: Tyranny with a difference -- 59: Fasten your seat belts -- 60: Underprivileged nation -- 61: What a corporal was worth -- 62: Why Hazel wasn't scared -- 63: Reverent and free -- 64: Peace and plenty -- 65: Good time to come to San Lorenzo -- 66: Strongest thing there is -- 67: HY-u-o-ook-kuh! -- 68: Hoon-year mora-toorz -- 69: Big mosaic -- 70: Tutored by Bokonon -- 71: Happiness of being an American -- 72: Pissant Hilton -- 73: Black death -- 74: Cat's cradle -- 75: Give my regards to Albert Schweitzer -- 76: Julian Castle agrees with Newt that everything is meaningless -- 77: Aspirin and Boko-Maru -- 78: Ring of steel -- 79: Why McCabe's soul grew coarse -- 80: Waterfall strainers -- 81: White bride for the son of a Pullman porter -- 82: Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo -- 83: Dr Schlichter von Koenigswald approaches the break-even point -- 84: Blackout -- 85: Pack of Foma -- 86: Two little jugs -- 87: Cut of my jib -- 88: Why Frank couldn't be president -- 89: Duffle -- 90: Only one catch -- 91: Mona -- 92: On the poet's celebration of his first Boko-Maru -- 93: How I almost lost my Mona -- 94: Highest mountain -- 95: I see the hook -- 96: Bell, book, and chicken in a hatbox -- 97: Stinking Christian -- 98: Last rites -- 99: Dyot meet mat -- 100: Down the oubliette goes Frank
- 101: Like my predecessors, I outlaw Bokonon -- 102: Enemies of freedom -- 103: Medical opinion on the effects of a writers' strike -- 104: Sulfathiazole -- 105: Pain-killer -- 106: What Bokononists say when they commit suicide -- 107: Feast your eyes! -- 108: Frank tells us what to do -- 109: Frank defends himself -- 110: Fourteenth book -- 111: Time out -- 112: Newt's mother's reticule -- 113: History -- 114: When I felt the bullet enter my heart -- 115: As it happened -- 116: Grand ah-whoom -- 117: Sanctuary -- 118: Iron maiden and the oubliette -- 119: Mona thanks me -- 120: To whom it may concern -- 121: I am slow to answer -- 122: Swiss family Robinson -- 123: Of mice and men -- 124: Frank's ant farm -- 125: Tasmanians -- 126: Soft pipes, play on -- 127: End
- Control code
- 19961610
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Lccn
- 76154035
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)758569
- (OCoLC)758569
- Label
- Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Note
- "A Seymour Lawrence book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 1: Day the world ended -- 2: Nice, nice, very nice -- 3: Folly -- 4: Tentative tangling of tendrils -- 5: Letter from a pre-med -- 6: Bug fights -- 7: Illustrious hoenikkers -- 8: Newt's thing with Zinka -- 9: Vice-president in charge of volcanoes -- 10: Secret agent X-9 -- 11: Protein -- 12: End of the world delight -- 13: Jumping-off place -- 14: When automobiles had cut-glass vases -- 15: Merry Christmas -- 16: Back to Kindergarten -- 17: Girl pool -- 18: Most valuable commodity on earth -- 19: No more mud -- 20: Ice-nine -- 21: Marines march on -- 22: Member of the yellow press -- 23: Last batch of brownies -- 24: What a wampeter is -- 25: Main thing about Dr Hoenikker -- 26: What God is -- 27: Men from Mars -- 28: Mayonnaise -- 29: Gone, but not forgotten -- 30: Only sleeping -- 31: Another breed -- 32: Dynamite money -- 33: Ungrateful man -- 34: Vin-dit -- 35: Hobby shop -- 36: Meow -- 37: Modern Major General -- 38: Barracuda capital of the world -- 39: Fata Morgana -- 40: House of hope and mercy -- 41: Karass built for two -- 42: Bicycles for Afghanistan -- 43: Demonstrator -- 44: Communist sympathizers -- 45: Why Americans are hated -- 46: Bokononist method for handling Caesar -- 47: Dynamic tension -- 48: Just like Saint Augustine -- 49: Fish pitched up by an angry sea -- 50: Nice midget -- 51: O K mom -- 52: No pain -- 53: President of Fabri-Tek -- 54: Communist, Nazis, Royalists, parachutists, and draft dodgers -- 55: Never index your own book -- 56: Self-supporting squirrel cage -- 57: Queasy dream -- 58: Tyranny with a difference -- 59: Fasten your seat belts -- 60: Underprivileged nation -- 61: What a corporal was worth -- 62: Why Hazel wasn't scared -- 63: Reverent and free -- 64: Peace and plenty -- 65: Good time to come to San Lorenzo -- 66: Strongest thing there is -- 67: HY-u-o-ook-kuh! -- 68: Hoon-year mora-toorz -- 69: Big mosaic -- 70: Tutored by Bokonon -- 71: Happiness of being an American -- 72: Pissant Hilton -- 73: Black death -- 74: Cat's cradle -- 75: Give my regards to Albert Schweitzer -- 76: Julian Castle agrees with Newt that everything is meaningless -- 77: Aspirin and Boko-Maru -- 78: Ring of steel -- 79: Why McCabe's soul grew coarse -- 80: Waterfall strainers -- 81: White bride for the son of a Pullman porter -- 82: Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo -- 83: Dr Schlichter von Koenigswald approaches the break-even point -- 84: Blackout -- 85: Pack of Foma -- 86: Two little jugs -- 87: Cut of my jib -- 88: Why Frank couldn't be president -- 89: Duffle -- 90: Only one catch -- 91: Mona -- 92: On the poet's celebration of his first Boko-Maru -- 93: How I almost lost my Mona -- 94: Highest mountain -- 95: I see the hook -- 96: Bell, book, and chicken in a hatbox -- 97: Stinking Christian -- 98: Last rites -- 99: Dyot meet mat -- 100: Down the oubliette goes Frank
- 101: Like my predecessors, I outlaw Bokonon -- 102: Enemies of freedom -- 103: Medical opinion on the effects of a writers' strike -- 104: Sulfathiazole -- 105: Pain-killer -- 106: What Bokononists say when they commit suicide -- 107: Feast your eyes! -- 108: Frank tells us what to do -- 109: Frank defends himself -- 110: Fourteenth book -- 111: Time out -- 112: Newt's mother's reticule -- 113: History -- 114: When I felt the bullet enter my heart -- 115: As it happened -- 116: Grand ah-whoom -- 117: Sanctuary -- 118: Iron maiden and the oubliette -- 119: Mona thanks me -- 120: To whom it may concern -- 121: I am slow to answer -- 122: Swiss family Robinson -- 123: Of mice and men -- 124: Frank's ant farm -- 125: Tasmanians -- 126: Soft pipes, play on -- 127: End
- Control code
- 19961610
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Lccn
- 76154035
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)758569
- (OCoLC)758569
Subject
- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Humorous stories
- Satire
- trueSatire
- Satire
- Satirical literature
- Satirical literature
- End of the world
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction genre
- Science fiction
- End of the world -- Fiction
Genre
- trueHumorous stories
- trueSatire
- Satirical literature
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction genre
- Humorous fiction
- Fiction
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