Viking Adult, 2002-01-28. First THUS. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. 40th Anniversary Edition. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

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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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Bookseller: Chaparral Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: CHAPkesKOO
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Kesey, Ken
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First THUS
ISBN 10: 0670030589
ISBN 13: 9780670030583
Publisher: Viking Adult
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2002-01-28
Size: 6x1x9
X weight: 16 oz

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