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Author / Creator:Vonnegut, Kurt.
Edition:Dial Press trade pbk. ed.
Imprint:New York : Dial Press, 2006, c1963.
Description:xiii, 287 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7871248
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ISBN:038533348X (pbk.)
9780385333481 (pbk.)
Summary:One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb. This is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Day the World Ended
  • 2. Nice, Nice, Very Nice
  • 3. Folly
  • 4. A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils
  • 5. Letter from a Pre-Med
  • 6. Bug Fights
  • 7. The Illustrious Hoenikkers
  • 8. Newt's Thing with Zinka
  • 9. Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes
  • 10. Secret Agent X-9
  • 11. Protein
  • 12. End of the World Delight
  • 13. The Jumping-Off Place
  • 14. When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases
  • 15. Merry Christmas
  • 16. Back to Kindergarten
  • 17. The Girl Pool
  • 18. The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth
  • 19. No More Mud
  • 20. Ice-Nine
  • 21. The Marines March on
  • 22. Member of the Yellow Press
  • 23. The Last Batch of Brownies
  • 24. What a Wampeter is
  • 25. The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker
  • 26. What God is
  • 27. Men from Mars
  • 28. Mayonnaise
  • 29. Gone, But Not Forgotten
  • 30. Only Sleeping
  • 31. Another Breed
  • 32. Dynamite Money
  • 33. An Ungrateful Man
  • 34. Vin-Dit
  • 35. Hobby Shop
  • 36. Meow
  • 37. A Modern Major General
  • 38. Barracuda Capital of the World
  • 39. Fata Morgana
  • 40. House of Hope and Mercy
  • 41. A Karass Built for Two
  • 42. Bicycles for Afghanistan
  • 43. The Demonstrator
  • 44. Communist Sympathizers
  • 45. Why Americans are Hated
  • 46. The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar
  • 47. Dynamic Tension
  • 48. Just Like Saint Augustine
  • 49. A Fish Pitched Up by an Angry Sea
  • 50. A Nice Midget
  • 51. O.K., Mom
  • 52. No Pain
  • 53. The President of Fabri-Tek
  • 54. Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers
  • 55. Never Index Your Own Book
  • 56.. A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage
  • 57.. The Queasy Dream
  • 58.. Tyranny With A Difference
  • 59.. Fasten Your Seat Belts
  • 60.. An Underprivileged Nation
  • 61.. What A Corporal Was Worth
  • 62.. Why Hazel Wasn't Scared
  • 63.. Reverent And Free
  • 64.. Peace And Plenty
  • 65.. A Good Time To Come To San Lorenzo
  • 66.. The Strongest Thing There Is
  • 67.. Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuh!
  • 68.. Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz
  • 69.. A Big Mosaic
  • 70.. Tutored By Bokonon
  • 71.. The Happiness Of Being An American
  • 72.. The Pissant Hilton
  • 73.. Black Death
  • 74.. Cat's Cradle
  • 75.. Give My Regards To Albert Scweitzer
  • 76.. Julian Castle Agrees With Newt That Everything Is Meaningless
  • 77.. Aspirin And Boko-Maru
  • 78.. Ring Of Steel
  • 79.. Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse
  • 80.. The Waterfall Strainers
  • 81.. A White Bride For The Son Of A Pullman Porter
  • 82.. Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo
  • 83.. Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches The Break-Even Point
  • 84.. Blackout
  • 85.. A Pack Of Foma
  • 86.. Two Little Jugs
  • 87.. The Cut Of My Jib
  • 88.. Why Frank Couldn't Be President
  • 89.. Duffle
  • 90.. Only One Catch
  • 91.. Mona
  • 92.. On The Poet's Celebration Of His First Boko-Maru
  • 93.. How I Almost Lost My Mona
  • 94.. The Highest Mountain
  • 95.. I See The Hook
  • 96.. Bell, Book, And Chicken In A Hatbox
  • 97.. The Stinking Christian
  • 98.. Last Rites
  • 99.. Dyot Meet Mat
  • 100.. Down The Oubliette Goes Frank
  • 101.. Like My Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon
  • 102.. Enemies Of Freedom
  • 103.. A Medical Opinion On The Effects Of A Writers' Strike
  • 104.. Sulfathiazole
  • 105.. Pain-Killer
  • 106.. What Bokononists Say When They Commit Suicide
  • 107.. Feast Your Eyes!
  • 108.. Frank Tells Us What To Do
  • 109.. Frank Defends Himself
  • 110.. The Fourteenth Book
  • 111.. Time Out
  • 112.. Newt's Mother's Reticule
  • 113.. History
  • 114.. When I Felt The Bullet Enter My Heart
  • 115.. As It Happened
  • 116.. The Grand Ah-Whoom
  • 117.. Sanctuary
  • 118.. The Iron Maiden And The Oubliette
  • 119.. Mona Thanks Me
  • 120.. To Whom It May Concern
  • 121.. I Am Slow To Answer
  • 122.. The Swiss Family Robinson
  • 123.. Of Mice And Men
  • 124.. Frank's Ant Farm
  • 125.. The Tasmanians
  • 126.. Soft Pipes, Play On
  • 127.. The End