One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0670030589
ISBN 13
9780670030583
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
320
Subject
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction. Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction. Psychiatric nurses -- Fiction.
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Abstract
A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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Publisher Comments
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 an enduring favorite of readers.
About the Author
Ken Kesey studied writing at Stanford University with Wallace Stegner and Malcolm Cowley. His novels include Sometimes a Great Notion, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round, as well as two children's books and several works of nonfiction.
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 an enduring favorite of readers.
About the Author
Ken Kesey studied writing at Stanford University with Wallace Stegner and Malcolm Cowley. His novels include Sometimes a Great Notion, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round, as well as two children's books and several works of nonfiction.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Novela
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ken Kesey
ISBN: 0141181222 9780141181226
OCLC Number: 970569894
Notes: Publicado originalmente: New York : Viking, 1962.
Description: xxii, 281 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Penguin classics.
Responsibility: Ken Kesey ; with illustrations and a new introduction by the author ; text introduction by Robert Faggen.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ken Kesey
ISBN: 0141181222 9780141181226
OCLC Number: 970569894
Notes: Publicado originalmente: New York : Viking, 1962.
Description: xxii, 281 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Penguin classics.
Responsibility: Ken Kesey ; with illustrations and a new introduction by the author ; text introduction by Robert Faggen.
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1
