Cats Cradle
作者: Kurt
出版社:Penguin 2008年05月
简介:
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut'scult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears ofwitnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr FelixHoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, hasleft a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entireplanet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's threeecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, tomadness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last,fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, isnigh...