description: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals, Ken Kesey crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
language: English
title: Sometimes A Great Notion
titlecomplete: Sometimes A Great Notion
characters: Viv Stamper, Leeland Stamper, Jonathan Bailey Draeger, Boney Stokes, Hank Stamper, Henry Stamper
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 22076
places: Oregon, The United States of America
publisher: Bantam Books