One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Paperback, 311 pages

English language

Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-004312-9
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OCLC Number:
442783573

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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, life-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 awesome power of The Combine. --back cover

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reviewed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Modern Classics)

Unmatched modern classic

Ken Kesey wrote an absolutely perfect story, the plot grips you asking what McMurphy will dare next, written from a perspective that happily contextualizes and compares the exploits of McMurphy, until the very end. This is a must read book for anyone interested psychiatry and a tribute to Ken Kesey's literary power.

Subjects

  • Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.
  • Psychiatric nurses -- Fiction.
  • Mentally ill -- Fiction.