Bibliograph

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Label

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Oclc number

729341495

Responsibility statement

Ken Kesey

Series statement

Penguin great books of the 20th century

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 6.2, 18, SD, Quiz 8667, English fiction.

Summary

A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital, where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse and tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world. 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 Ratched. 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 Nurse Ratched and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. -- Provided by publisher

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