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Author : Kesey, Ken.
Title : One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Published : New York, Viking Press [1973, c1962]
Description : 272 p. 18 cm.
Series : Signet Book - New American Library
Subject : Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Fiction.
Psychiatric nurses -- United States -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- United States -- Fiction.
Condition: well read, the covers have some creasing and rubbing. Edges sl. fox marked, first two pages dog-eared
»You've never met anyone like Randle Patrick McMurphy... the hero of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over...
He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women; at every turn, he openly defies her rule.
The contest starts as sport (with McMurphy taking bets on the outcome) but soon it develops into a grim struggle for the minds and hearts of the men, into an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Big Nurse, backed by the full power of authority... McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will.«
(marketing copy on back jacket)
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