An edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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An edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • 4.11 ·
  • 27 Ratings
  • 336 Want to read
  • 23 Currently reading
  • 66 Have read

Tired of weeding peas at a penal farm, the tough, freewheeling McMurphy feigns insanity for a chance at the softer life of a mental institution. But he gets more than he's bargained for, much more. He is committed to the care of Big Nurse—a full-breasted, stiff-gaited tyrant who rules over her charges with chilling authority.
Her ward is a citadel of discipline. Strong arm orderlies stand ready to quell even the feeblest insurrection. Her patients long ago gave up the struggle to assert themselves. Cowed, docile, they have surrendered completely to her unbridled authority.
Now, into their ranks charges McMurphy. The gambling Irishman sees at once what Big Nurse's game is. Appalled by the timidity of his fellow patients, he begins his one-man campaign to render her powerless. First in fun, and then in dire earnestness, he sets out to create havoc on her well-run ward ... to make the gray halls ring with laughter, and anger, and life.

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Language
English
Pages
272

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Edition Availability
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2016, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - "Sketches" edition (6)
Cover of: Над кукушкиным гнездом
Над кукушкиным гнездом
2016, Eksmo
in Russian
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2006, Penguin Books
paperback in English - Red Classics
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2003, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - printing (8)
Cover of: Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
March 6, 2002, Stock
Paperback in French
Cover of: Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou: roman
1995-02, France Loisirs
Hardcover in French - Edition du Club France Loisirs
Cover of: Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest
Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest
1990-12, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla, Rowohlt Tb.
Paperback in German
Cover of: Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
1976, Stock, Livre de Poche
Mass Market Paperback in French - Movie Tie-In Edition
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976, New American Library, Penguin Putnam~mass
Mass Market Paperback in English - Authorized Reprint (59); Movie tie-in
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, New American Library
Paperback in English
Cover of: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1971-01, Viking Press
Paperback in English - 16th printing

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First Sentence

"part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them. They're mopping when I come out the dorm, all three of them sulky and hating everything, the time of day, the place they're at here, the people they got to work around. When they hate like this, better if they don't see me. I creep along me wall quiet as dust in my canvas shoes, but they got special sensitive equipment detects my fear and they all look up, all three at once, eyes glittering out of the black faces like the hard glitter of radio tubes out of the back of an old radio. "Here's the Chief. The soo-pah Chief, fellas. Ol' Chief Broom. Here you go, Chief Broom...." Stick a mop in my hand and motion to the spot they aim for me to clean today, and I go. One swats the backs of my legs with a broom handle to hurry me past. "Haw, you look at 'im shag it? Big enough to eat apples off my head an' he mine me like a baby.""

Edition Notes

Originally published, New York: Viking Press, 1962.

Published in
New York, USA

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
10,5x18 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21448199M
ISBN 10
0451088670
ISBN 13
9780451088673
OCLC/WorldCat
471170960, 874200404
Library Thing
2122

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Work Description

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind; including a critique of psychiatry, and a tribute to individualistic principles

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