{"product_id":"one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest","title":"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series \u003ci\u003eRatched \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable 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. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A work of genuine literary merit . . . What Mr. Kesey has done in his unusual novel is to transform the plight of a ward of inmates in a mental hospital into a glittering parable of good and evil.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[A] brilliant first novel . . . a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil . . . Keysey has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The final triumph of these men at the cost of a terrifying sacrifice should send chills down any reader's back. . . . This novel's scenes have the liveliness of a motion picture.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An outstanding book . . . [Kesey's] characters are original and real. . . . This is a tirade against the increasing controls over man and his mind, yet the author never gets on a soap box. Nor does he forget that there is a thin line between tragedy and comedy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Houston Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKen Kesey\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. His books include Sometimes a Great Notion, \u003c\/span\u003eKesey's Garage Sale\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003eDemon Box\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003eSailor Song\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003eLast Go Round\u003cspan\u003e (with Ken Babbs). He passed away on November 10, 2001.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45957685936314,"sku":"9780141181226","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_09bda430-b0be-4969-aaa1-78706229d927.jpg?v=1780767328","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}