Ken Kesey ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST movie tie-in ed Nurse Ratched Cassidy

Description: Sold singly. Sold as reading copies, expect all flaws. Older printing has more issues than the newer, both are high number printings. The United States of America and probably the world would be a much different place had this book not been written. While the book itself is a quality novel, the result of its publication--the money that came to a small town Oregon farmer boy and the friends he made; and what he did with it, changed the world. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, their bus trip; the Acid Tests, the Summer of Love, the Grateful Dead; the counter culture, and more . . . and this prophetic book started it all; mirrored it all; foresaw it all. It was adapted to Broadway, where Nicholson's part was played by Kirk Douglas. In fact the bus trip was made to NYC in time for the opening of the play. It was adapted to a film, starring Jack Nicholson. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

Price: 6 USD

Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

End Time: 2025-01-29T22:12:40.000Z

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