On Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Author: Ken Kesey
List: Modern Classic
Year of publication: 1962
Pages: 320
Goodreads: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

 

 

 

 

 

Blurb

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

 


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