num_pages: 528
description: A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel 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. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become an enduring favorite of readers.
language: English
title: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
titlecomplete: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
characters: Scanlon, Chief Bromden, Nurse Ratched, Doctor Spivey, Martini, William "Billy" Bibbit, Randle Patrick McMurphy, Bruce Fredrickson, James "Jim" Sefelt, Dale Harding, Charles Cheswick
genres: Fiction, American, Mental Health, Psychology, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 717030
places: Oregon, The United States of America, Salem, Oregon
publisher: Thorndike Pr