One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition-Fast Shipping

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Ken 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 Ratched

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s OneFlew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has left an indelible mark on theliterature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity andinsanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of amental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big NurseRatched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving newinmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes ofChief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses andunderstands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers thatkeep them all imprisoned.
Hailed upon its publication as “a glittering parable of good andevil” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a roar of protestagainst middlebrow society’s Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforcethem” (Time), Kesey’s powerful book went on to sell millions ofcopies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was firstreleased. This new deluxe hardcover edition commemorates the fiftiethanniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1,1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.