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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. Marking the fortieth anniversary of Viking's publication of this American classic, this deluxe hardcover edition includes a new introduction by Robert Faggen and drawings Kesey made when he worked at the psychiatric hospital that was the inspiration for the novel.
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. This new edition-modeled on the popular fortieth-anniversary edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road-will bring Kesey's genius to a new generation while delighting his loyal fans.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2016, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
- "Sketches" edition (6)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2006, Penguin Books
paperback
in English
- Red Classics
0141024879 9780141024875
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2003, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
- printing (8)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2002, Viking
Hardcover
in English
- 40th anniversary ed. (1)
0670030589 9780670030583
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Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou: roman
1995-02, France Loisirs
Hardcover
in French
- Edition du Club France Loisirs
2724283767 9782724283761
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Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest
1990-12, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla, Rowohlt Tb.
Paperback
in German
3499150611 9783499150616
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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
0451121406 9780451121400
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Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou
1976, Stock, Livre de Poche
Mass Market Paperback
in French
- Movie Tie-In Edition
2253016071 9782253016076
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1971-01, Viking Press
Paperback
in English
- 16th printing
0670001619 9780670001613
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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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