TY - BOOK AU - Kesey,Ken TI - One flew over the cuckoo's nest T2 - Popular Penguins SN - 9780141037493 U1 - 813.54 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Melbourne PB - Penguin Group (Australia) KW - Psychiatric hospital patients KW - Fiction KW - Psychiatric nurses KW - Mentally ill KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh N1 - First published in the U.S. by Viking, 1962 N2 - 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 ER -