Sometimes a great notion
By: Ken Kesey ; introduction by Charles Bowden
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 715
ISBN-13: 9780143039860
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts -- Lumber trade -- Oregon -- Fiction; Labor unions -- Fiction; Oregon -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: From the Publisher: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

The aggressive scion of an Oregon lumber empire struggles against the conformity of townspeople.