Pan Books, UK, 1978. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 255 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1978. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has mild fading. . Pages are considerably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Chief Bromden, half American-Indian, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the story of a mental institution ruled by Big Nurse on behalf of the all-powerful Combine. Into this terrifying grey world comes McMurphy, a brawling gambling man, who wages total war on behalf of his cowed fellow-inmates. What follows is at once hilarious and heroic, tragic and ultimately liberating. Since its first publication in 1962, Ken Kesey's astonishing first novel has achieved the status of a contemporary classic. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0330235648. ISBN/EAN: 9780330235648. Inventory No: 24040100.. 9780330235648

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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: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 24040100
Title: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Format/Binding: Medium Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0330235648
ISBN 13: 9780330235648
Publisher: Pan Books
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bookseller catalogs: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Fiction; Literature & Literary;

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