Cat’s Cradle (The Sixties in America)

The Work

The narrator of Cat’s Cradle, John, who calls himself Jonah, sets out to write a book called The Day the World Ended, a fictional account of what various people were doing on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. In the course of researching this book, he becomes involved with the peculiar offspring of the late Dr. Felix Hoenikker, a brilliant but emotionally detached physicist whose crowning achievement was the discovery of ice-nine, a form of ice that has a melting point of 114.4 degrees and freezes anything it touches....

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