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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co, 1962. First UK Edition. 311pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: VERY GOOD. Tight, clean copy, free of marks or inscriptions; slight foxing on top text block. Seemingly less common uncensored state without '1962 by Ken Kesey' blacked out on the copyright page. The unclipped wrapper has some foxing/spotting, with negligible loss at the head of the spine.
Kesey was a major counter-cultural link between the Beat Generation of the 1950's and the hippies of the 1960's. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. This is a great book and belongs on the shelf with Orwell, Brave New World, Farenheit 451, Clockwork Orange, Darkness at Noon and Cool Hand Luke…the country's great dystopic fantasies that have best symbolized the human dilemma and come down on the side of freedom". brothersjudd.com
Synopsis
An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. 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. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bynx, LLX
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B01054
- Title
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Author
- Kesey, Ken
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 311
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Counterculture
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Bynx, LLX
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Orlando, Florida
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We are located at 420 East Church Street in downtown Orlando. We specialize in Modern First Editions, Signed Musician Biographies, Music and Countercounture Ephemera.
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