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One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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New York: Viking, 1962. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine first edition, first printing copy, internally perfect, with very slight fading to top edge and bottom of spine, of Kesey's first novel in a VG first issue jacket with some fraying and chipping at spine ends and corners and fading at extremities. Jacket is not price clipped($4.95) All the points are there! Red Cross Woman on page 9, "A great new American Novelist" byJack Kerouac on front flap. A very desirable and collectible copy of one of the most iconic novels ever written. Mylar protected.

Synopsis

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. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. 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 and enduring favorite of readers.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
000324
Title
One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author
Ken Kesey
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
Publisher
Viking
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1962
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
First edition, First Printing with first issue jacket.
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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