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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Kesey, Ken

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  • Hardcover
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About This Item

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, first state with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Near Fine with light fading to topstain, faint bit of staining to edge of page block, previous owner details to front free endpaper. In a Very Good+ price-clipped first state dust jacket with five-word Jack Kerouac blurb on the front flap, spine heavily faded, and with light edge wear. A rather presentable copy.

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
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
171023001
Title
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author
Kesey, Ken
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
The Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1962
Bookseller catalogs
Literature;

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