One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Informationen zum Autor Ken Kesey (1935-2001) was raised in Oregon! graduated from the University of Oregon! and later studied at Stanford University. He was the author of four novels! two children's books! and several works of nonfiction. Klappentext BEING 'MAD' ISN'T EASY...Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict! unbending routine. Her patients! cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy! dare not oppose her. But everything changes with the arrival of McMurphy-the swaggering! fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin. McMurphy battles Nurse Ratched and the ward regime! challenging everyone's beliefs about madness...who! of them all! is really insane?'A glittering parable of good and evil' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them' TIME'If you haven't already read this book! do so. If you have! read it again' SCOTSMAN'Darkly humorous' GUARDIAN Zusammenfassung Presents the story of a mental ward and its inhabitants! especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy! the brawling! fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Kesey, Chuck Palahniuk
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.10.2006
• EAN: 9780141024875
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102487-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 180 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Red Classics; Pocket Penguin Classics; Red Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks; Red Penguin Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature