Format: 15th paperback printing

Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light soiling on white areas of covers, spine creases, previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Well read book.

Product dimensions: n/a

Publishing Info: Signet Q4171, New York

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

 

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness. 

 

Ken Kesey wikipedia entry

 

Interview with Kesey from NPR

 

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