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. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack
Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant, ribald and
devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and
madness.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, Chuck Palahniuk & Robert Faggen
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