Kurt Vonnegut Collection 3 Books Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Sirens Of Titan

Name: Kurt Vonnegut Collection 3 Books Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Sirens Of Titan
Brand: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Description. Slaughterhouse 5:. Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.. Cat's Cradle:. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for his whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the absurd religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global...