New York: Penguin Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0143036904 . Classics of Modern Literature; 9.30 X 6.20 X 1.20 inches; 277 pages .

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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. 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: Time Traveler Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28122
Title: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Kesey, Ken
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0143036904
ISBN 13: 9780143036906
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: 0143036904

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