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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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ISBN13: 9780451163967
ISBN10: 0451163966
Condition: Standard
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An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s.

A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.

With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.

Synopsis:

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
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About the Author

Ken Kesey was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Scowcroft, and Frank O' Connor. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his first novel, was published in 1962. His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964. His other books include Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O. U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round (with Ken Babbs). His two children's books are Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. Ken Kesey died on November 10, 2001.

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ReaderOfBooks, March 31, 2011 (view all comments by ReaderOfBooks)
This book is a classic. It's one of my favorites! R.P. McMurphy's rebellion against Nurse Ratched is funny, yet serious at the same time. The entire book deals with issues like being an outsider, fighting authority, and not backing down; McMurphy and Nurse Ratched fight each other and push each others' boundaries as long as they can, until they break. In the end, the reader is left to wonder if it was McMurphy or Nurse Ratched that really won the battle, and how they changed each others' lives.
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egogrif, March 5, 2011 (view all comments by egogrif)
Such a great book. It slaps you in the face from the very first chapter. You don’t just read the story about one small group of men in one mental institution at one moment of time – you are drawn into it. Kesey tampers with your emotions. He knows how to make you feel, like his characters, the sense of entrapment, of emasculation, of unbearable dictatorship. He builds an aggravating tension between Nurse Ratched's cage and McMurphy’s songbird singing. If you can bear the rough ride, it'll reward you with grand triumph of the human spirit, not exactly a happy ending, but a question: who won - McMurphy or the Nurse? The best of Kesey's works, and a hard book to put down without finishing!
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Craig Ensz, April 7, 2010 (view all comments by Craig Ensz)
A classic tale of mental illness, the struggle to survive and the state of mental care fifty years ago. A cast of characters that recreate the setting of hospital life and treatment. Are electric shock and lobotomies cruel and unusual treatment? Can the sane coexist with the insane and possible help them more humanly than doctors? Is abuse a standard of care? These questions and more are asked by Kasey in this classic novel.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780451163967
Author:
Kesey, Ken
Publisher:
Signet
Location:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Mentally ill
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Allegories
Subject:
Psychiatric hospital patients
Subject:
Medical novels
Subject:
Mentally ill -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Psychiatric nurses.
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1962
Edition Description:
B-Mass Market
Series Volume:
no. 145
Publication Date:
February 1963
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
7.54x4.31x.86 in. .48 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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