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One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a novel / by Ken Kesey. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, (c)1976.Description: 311 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780140043129
  • 9780143105022
  • 9780140283341
  • 9780451163967
  • 9780670023233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3561.K42.O544 1976
Subject: 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. However, McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from a sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. -- Provided by publisher.Subject: An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
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Leisure (by snack nook) Leisure (by snack nook) G. Allen Fleece Library LEISURE Fiction PS3561.K42.O544 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923002087084

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. However, McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from a sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. -- Provided by publisher.

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.

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