Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Kesey's work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fu
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
β Scribed by Ken Kesey
- Publisher
- Signet Book
- Year
- 2009;1963
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Edition
- 1st Signet print
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0451163966
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: The imaginative characters and innovative story structure made Ken Kesey?s debut novel ripe for commentary. Take a closer look at One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, which also enjoyed critical success as a play and a film. The title, Ken KeseyΒs One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, part of Chelsea House PublishersΒ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ken KeseyΒs One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ken Kesey, a chronology of the authorΒs life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
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