One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By: by Ken Kesey.
Edition: 1st Signet printing (112)
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1993?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780451163967
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.; Psychiatric nurses -- Fiction.; Mentally ill -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, back by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.
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Notes: US/CAN