One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [electronic resource] : 50th Anniversary Edition
Ken Kesey2024
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Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the
value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original
series Ratched
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest 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. Greete...
Main title:
Author:
Ken Kesey, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (289 MB, 10:32:11 H)
Performers:
Narrator: John C. Reilly
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9798217021475
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
533371
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |