Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars. - After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern - Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey - The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz - Cat's cradle / Richard Giannone - Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons - From formula toward experiment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz - Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat's cradle / Leonard Mustazza - Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy - Mother night, Cat's cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz - Vonnegut's invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese - Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris - Vonnegut's cosmos / David H. Goldsmith - Cosmic irony / James Lundquist - Cat's cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer - Hurting 'til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed - The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw.