| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kesey, Ken (Author), Pratt, John Clark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140236015 ISBN-13: 9780140236019 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95031069 |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Series: Viking Critical Library |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (1.05 lbs) 688 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 8667 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Powerful, poetic realism...makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity.--Life. 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 Viking Critical Library edition is accompanied by essays, discussion topics, a chronology, and a bibliography. 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. |