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Cat's cradle, [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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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
Work
Publication
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
Instance
Label
Cat's cradle
Title
Cat's cradle
Statement of responsibility
[by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
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
Instantiates
Publication
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
Publication
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

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