One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey / 1962 Signet Paperback

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Author: Kesey, Ken

Publication:New York : Signet, 1962

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Edition:

Condition: Used: Good

Description: spine and cover creasing, edge wear; 44th printing. Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned.

Ref#: 037839

Subject: General Fiction

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