Format:
Book
Author:
Kesey, Ken.
Title:
One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a novel / by Ken Kesey.
Publisher, Date:
Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1976, ©1962.
Description:
311 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:
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. -- Provided by publisher.
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.
Psychiatric nurses -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Allegories.
Notes:
Reprint of the 1964 ed. published by Viking Press, New York, in series: A Viking compass book.
LCCN:
76028166
ISBN:
0140043128
9780140043129
0143105027
9780143105022
014028334X
9780140283341
0451163966
9780451163967
9780670023233
067002323X
Other Number:
2823713
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
5
Control Number:
764311
Call Number:
FICTION Kesey
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
5
# System items in:
5