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 chroni[...]
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the[...]
This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark a[...]
McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse[...]
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratche[...]
A lavish fortieth anniversary edition of this American classic story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse features a new introduction by Robert Faggen and drawings the author mad[...]
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratche[...]
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Following the astonishing success of his first novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half [...]
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. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affir[...]
During his fraudulent stay at a mental institution, a charming rogue invokes the head nurse's antagonism by inciting revolution among the inmates.[...]
A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel[...]
Unabridged(Number of Units in Package: 9) McMurphy is a life-loving fighter who rallies the other mental patients around him to challenge the dictatorship of Big Nurse in what becomes a struggle for the minds and hearts of men.[...]
McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.[...]
Now available with bonus "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross interview with the late Ken Kesey.
Ken Kesey's story of life in a state mental hospital is a classic of American literature. This collection features not only a "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross interview with the late Ken Kesey but also narration[...]
Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion.[...]
Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion.[...]
From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who describ[...]
Eines der großen tragikomischen Bücher der Gegenwartsliteratur. Voller Realistik, unglaublichem Humor und Sympathie für die Opfer erzählt der junge Autor Ken Kesey von der ständigen Bevormundung der Insassen einer Heilanstalt. Der Film von Milos Forman mit Jack Nicholson in der Hauptrolle wurde[...]
Halvindianeren Chief Bromden, som alle tror er døvstum, er innlagt på asyl. På asylet hersker Big Nurse uinnskrenket helt til vagabonden McMurphy dukker opp. Han er en komisk, tragisk og heroisk skikkelse som blåser frisk luft inn i asylet og snur opp ned på hele systemet. McMurphys opprør knu[...]
Gökboet är en roman om frihetslängtan och frihetstörst i kamp mot en
till synes oinskränkt övermakt. Skojaren McMurphy utmanar mentalsjukhusets envåldshärskare syster Ratched och väcker de både bildligt och bokstavligt nedsövda
medpatienterna till ett stillsamt uppr[...]