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082	0		_aFIC VON
100	1		_aVonnegut, Kurt
245	1	0	_aCat's cradle _c/ Kurt Vonnegut
260			_aNew York _b: Dial Press _c, 1991 _c, c1963.
300			_a287 pp _c; 20cc
520			_aVonnegut's 1963 satirical science fiction novel still manages to pack a powerfully subversive punch. The new release offers readers an excellent opportunity to connect--or reconnect--with a classic text whose thematic elements--nuclear terror, the complications of science, American imperialism, global capitalism and the role of religion in public life--are remarkably relevant to our 21st-century landscape. The story line centers on a young writer's quest to research the history of the atomic bomb, which leads to a bizarre political soap opera and apocalyptic showdown on the shores of a seedy banana republic in the Caribbean.
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