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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Chief Bromden, R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched) Source for the MOVIE and TV Series (Jack Nicholson Photo cover)
by Kesey, Ken
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- GOOD+
- ISBN 10
- 0330235648
- ISBN 13
- 9780330235648
- Seller
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Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Great Britain, United Kingdom: Picador Books., 1976. Book. Illus. by PHOTO Cover From FILM/Movie. GOOD+. Soft cover. 7th Edition By This Publisher.. 255 pages; Wikipedia notes; ** Story Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of historical (out dated) forms of psychotherapy and a tribute to individualistic principles. ** The Novel was adapted into the Broadway (and later off-Broadway) play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman in 1963. ** Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film directed by Milo Forman, which won five Academy Awards (The Movie starred; Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman); ** Time magazine included the novel in its 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 List. ** In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 Best-Loved Novels. ** The book is narrated by "Chief" Bromden, a gigantic yet docile half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf and mute. Bromdens tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than at a prison work farm. The head administrative nurse, Nurse Ratched, rules the ward with absolute authority and little medical oversight. ** ** Louise Fletcher won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in the film. ** Nurse Ratched was named the fifth-greatest villain in film history (and second-greatest villainess, behind only the Wicked Witch of the West of The Wizard of Oz) by the American Film Institute in their series 100 Years. 100 Heroes & Villains. ** Netflix and Ryan Murphy produced a prequel 2020 TV Series titled Ratched which follows Sarah Paulson as a younger version of Nurse Ratched. >>> Heavy creasing to covers; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. 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. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
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- Bookseller
- COMIC WORLD
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B2011-1
- Title
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Chief Bromden, R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched) Source for the MOVIE and TV Series (Jack Nicholson Photo cover)
- Author
- Kesey, Ken
- Illustrator
- PHOTO Cover From FILM/Movie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD+
- Edition
- 7th Edition By This Publisher.
- ISBN 10
- 0330235648
- ISBN 13
- 9780330235648
- Publisher
- Picador Books.
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- MOVIE - Film, Screenplay, Broadway, Stage, Acting; General Fiction (Assorted);
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About the Seller
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