Sometimes a great notion
by Ken Kesey
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From the Publisher: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
The aggressive scion of an Oregon lumber empire struggles against the conformity of townspeople.
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Fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Lumber trade, Fiction in English, Labor unions, Literature, individuality, competition, union warfare, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Oregon, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Grèves et lock-out, Romans, nouvelles, Bois, CommercePeople
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Sometimes A Great Notion
1964, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
- 1st PB edition
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Sometimes a Great notion is a book about about the Stamper family. A tough crew who keeps getting pushed west by
the youngest Stamper's whim after looking out the window. Finally they can not go any further west than a raging river on Oregon coast. Hank and the Father run a Logging operation against all odds to unionize
Great characters Biggie Newton and Finally the youngest son Leland returns after his drug lab exploded.
Hank and Leland fight over a Woman and Leland grows up
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