One flew over the cuckoo's nest /
Kesey, Ken.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; with illustrations and a preface by the author ; introduction by Robert Faggen. - Melbourne : Penguin Group (Australia), 2008. - xxii, 281 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Popular Penguins . - Popular Penguins. .
First published in the U.S. by Viking, 1962.
This book captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for electric shock therapy, so when the boisterous McMurphy arrives - intent on disruption and showing the other patients a good time - a titanic battle of wills emerges. Kesey explores the shadowy boundaries between conformity and individuality, sanity and madness, with devastating effect.
9780141037493
Psychiatric hospital patients--Fiction.
Psychiatric nurses--Fiction.
Mentally ill--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction
813.54
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; with illustrations and a preface by the author ; introduction by Robert Faggen. - Melbourne : Penguin Group (Australia), 2008. - xxii, 281 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Popular Penguins . - Popular Penguins. .
First published in the U.S. by Viking, 1962.
This book captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for electric shock therapy, so when the boisterous McMurphy arrives - intent on disruption and showing the other patients a good time - a titanic battle of wills emerges. Kesey explores the shadowy boundaries between conformity and individuality, sanity and madness, with devastating effect.
9780141037493
Psychiatric hospital patients--Fiction.
Psychiatric nurses--Fiction.
Mentally ill--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction
813.54
