One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Kesey's work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series <i>Ratched <p/></i></b>Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i> is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A work of genuine literary merit . . . What Mr. Kesey has done in his unusual novel is to transform the plight of a ward of inmates in a mental hospital into a glittering parable of good and evil.<br><i><b>--The New York Times Book Review</b></i> <p/>[A] brilliant first novel . . . a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil . . . Keysey has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them.<br><i><b>--Time</b></i> <p/>The final triumph of these men at the cost of a terrifying sacrifice should send chills down any reader's back. . . . This novel's scenes have the liveliness of a motion picture.<br><i><b>--The Washington Post</b></i> <p/>An outstanding book . . . [Kesey's] characters are original and real. . . . This is a tirade against the increasing controls over man and his mind, yet the author never gets on a soap box. Nor does he forget that there is a thin line between tragedy and comedy.<br><i><b>--Houston Chronicle </b></i> <p/> <br><i><b><br></b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ken Kesey </b>was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. His books include Sometimes a Great Notion, <i> Kesey's Garage Sale</i>, <i>Demon Box</i>, <i>Sailor Song</i>, and<i> Last Go Round</i> (with Ken Babbs). He passed away on November 10, 2001.
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