Cat's Cradle (24 page)

CAT’S CRADLE
A Dial Press Trade Paperback Book

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New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 1963 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mrs. E. L. Masters for permission to reprint “Knowlt Hoheimer” from the
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters. Copyright Macmillan, 1914, 1915, 1942.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76154035

eISBN: 978-0-307-56727-7

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