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Details
- Instance of
- literary work
- Publication date
- 1963
- Follows
- Mother Night
- Followed by
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Genre
- science fiction
- country of origin
- United States
- first line
- Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
- form of creative work
- novel
- has edition or translation
- Cat's Cradle, Cat's Cradle
- language of work or name
- English
- last line
- This is what I read: “If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”
- named after
- cat's cradle
- nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- set in environment
- fictional country
- title
- Cat's Cradle, Le Berceau du chat
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