One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Classics Criticism Fiction General General & Literary Fiction Literary Literature - Classics Medical novels Mental illness Mentally ill Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Oregon Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospitals Psychiatric nurses Psychological Psychological fiction Psychology Satire
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Nov 27, 2007
Description:
SUMMARY: A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Kesey's counterculture classic Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.