Rereading: Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

Benjamin Kunkel

Saturday, 26 Apr 2008

Published a year after the Cuban missile crisis, Cat's Cradle is a classic of cold-war science fiction. Its hallucinatory quality made Kurt Vonnegut a hero to hippies and peaceniks, writes Benjamin Kunkel

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Benjamin Kunkel

Saturday, 26 Apr 2008

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