description: Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.You've never met anyone like Randle Patrick McMurphy. He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over. He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and at every turn, openly defies her rule. The contest starts as sport, with McMurphy taking bets on the outcome, but soon it develops into a grim struggle for the minds and hearts of the men, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Big Nurse, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Big Nurse uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.
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: 717075
places: Oregon, The United States of America, Salem, Oregon
publisher: Blackstone Publishing