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Cat's cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (Author)
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
Print Book, English, [©1963]
Delacorte Press, New York, [©1963]
Satire
231 pages ; 22 cm
9780385333481, 038533348X
758569
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
"A Seymour Lawrence book."