Sometimes a Great Notion
by Kesey, Ken
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140045295
- ISBN 13
- 9780140045291
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Group, 1988 628pp. Signed with drawing by Ken Kesey on author bio page, otherwise text unmarked. Spine has a slant. Text block has a slight curl. Front wrap has a half-inch detachment from the spine and a quarter-inch detachment from the spine heel. Top edge of front wrap has a half-inch tear. Top edge of front wrap is bumped and has a tiny piece missing. Rear wrap has old sticker residue near the spine head. Wraps are sunned along the edges. Old barcode sticker at spine heel of rear wrap. Two old stickers inside front wrap. Several pages have a diagonal crease at the top tip. May have other minor flaws. 0140045295. Signed by Author. Paperback. Fair.
Synopsis
Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. Although One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion his magnum opus. The story revolves around an Oregon logging family that continues to cut trees despite a union strike.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32249
- Title
- Sometimes a Great Notion
- Author
- Kesey, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140045295
- ISBN 13
- 9780140045291
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autographed, Signed: Fiction;
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....