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Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for electric shock therapy, so when the boisterous McMurphy arrives - intent on disruption and showing the other patients a good time - a titanic battle of wills emerges. Kesey explores the shadowy boundaries between conformity and individuality, sanity and madness, with devastating effect.
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Ken Kesey's previous work includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O.U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, and Sailor Song. His children's books include Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. He lives in Oregon.

Ken Babbs (on the right of the photograph) and his wife, Eileen, and daughter, Elizabeth, live in Lost Creek, Oregon, where he writes and does his constructions.

Ken Kesey was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Scowcroft and Frank O'Connor. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, his first novel, was published in 1962, His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964. His other books include Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O.U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round (with Ken Babbs). His two children's books are Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. Ken Kesey died on 10 November 2001.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press; 1st edition (1 September 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141037490
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141037493
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.1 x 2 x 18 cm
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Ken Kesey was born in Colorado in 1935. He founded the Merry Pranksters in the sixties and became a cult hero, a phenomenon documented by Tom Wolfe in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. He died in 2001.

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Counting Photons
5.0 out of 5 stars See MacMurphy from a Different Viewpoint
Reviewed in Australia on 25 September 2014
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Re-living the events from the perspective of the Chief provides some extremely poignant and memorable moments and gives insights into the workings of 'The Machine' and the motivations of 'The Big Nurse' which are not available from the movie.
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Sydney1981
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend
Reviewed in Australia on 25 December 2014
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A great book which is well worth the read! A great insight into the treatment of mentally ill patients in the 1960s, with moments of comedy, sadness and seriousness. Highly recommend.
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Arun.D
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and Disturbing..
Reviewed in Australia on 29 July 2020
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This is a powerful little book; having seen the movie I found Jack Nicholson’s impression of the character McMurphy perfect. It’s quite funny; disturbing and sad at the same time. You do get lost when reading as sometimes reality gets mixed in with the delusional but all in all an easy read. The only issue with this publication is the print is a bit too small for my liking, making it difficult to read.
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shirley broomhall
5.0 out of 5 stars although I don't particularly like the style of writing
Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2015
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Frightening, and obviously, a classic, although I don't particularly like the style of writing, and I thought the sketches were off-putting.
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Martin Grose
4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, believable, mental illness confronted.
Reviewed in Australia on 28 December 2014
Powerful, believable, mental illness confronted.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
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Mlee
5.0 out of 5 stars Haven’t started
Reviewed in Canada on 19 March 2024
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But the back of the book was so good sounding, I’m excited to start this one!!
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Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing story
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This book I found was just amazing another one I was studying while doing humanities during access, such depth and detail and such a story line which really highlighted the institutional abuse that took place in mental asylums and how they preferred keeping patients drugged in order to maintain conformity. Amazing read cannot fault it whatsoever I have read it quite a few times highly recommended
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2024
This book I found was just amazing another one I was studying while doing humanities during access, such depth and detail and such a story line which really highlighted the institutional abuse that took place in mental asylums and how they preferred keeping patients drugged in order to maintain conformity. Amazing read cannot fault it whatsoever I have read it quite a few times highly recommended
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Daniel Wittmayer
5.0 out of 5 stars Verstörend, brilliant und ein echter Klassiker
Reviewed in Germany on 8 July 2022
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Bin lange um das Buch herumgeschlichen, da ich die ganze Irrenhaus-Thematik als zu gruselig empfunden habe, mich dann aber doch jetzt dazu überwunden und es keine Sekunde bereut! Was für ein intensives Leseerlebnis!

Wie bereits erwähnt trägt sich der Großteil der Handlung in einer Irrenanstalt in den 50er Jahren zu, um genau zu sein in einem bestimmten Flügel dieser Anstalt. Zwar sind fragwürdige Therapiemethoden wie die Wassertherapie bereits abgeschafft, allerdings werden den Patienten zu ihrem eigenen Wohl auch weiterhin Elektroschocks und Lobotomien zu Teil. Der Flügel, in dem die Geschichte spielt, wird von der Großen Schwester beherrscht, das Paradebeispiel eines Blockwarts oder Nazi-Schergens, der mit Angst regiert und die Insassen untereinander ausspielt. Der Leser verfolgt die Geschichte durch die Augen eines schizophrenen Indianers, der vermutlich zu viele Elektroschocks bekommen hat, weshalb man manche Ereignisse für Ausgeburten seines Hirns halten kann/möchte.

Das beschauliche Leben in dem Flügel sowie die Schreckensherrschaft der Großen Schwester und ihrer Helfershelfer geraten ins Wanken, als ein neuer Patient auftaucht, der gegen ihre Psycho-Spielchen immun zu sein scheint. Was Anfangs noch wie eine fröhliche Revolution wirkt, endet böse...

Sprachlich ist das ganze für Menschen, die nicht so sicher in der Englischen Sprache sind eventuell etwas anspruchsvoll, aber dieses Buch lohnt sich definitiv! Die Anstalt und auch die Schwester stehen für bekannte Motive, die uns auch heute noch begegnen und uns Allen täte ein bisschen von McMurphys "Eiern" gut.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended to everybody
Reviewed in Italy on 5 May 2021
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Great novel in a gorgeous edition that comes with the author's original sketches. Recommended to everybody.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buena compra
Reviewed in Spain on 1 November 2020
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Todo bien
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