Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority & a rebellious free spirit Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties This Penguin Classics edition
Includes:: a preface never-before published illustrations by the author & an introduction by Robert Faggen Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict & unbending routine unopposed by her patients who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication & the threat of electroshock therapy But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of Mc Murphy
- 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 Mc Murphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant ribald & devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity & madness If you enjoyed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest you might like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A glittering parable of good & evil' The New York Times Book Review'A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules & the Rulers who enforce them' Time' If you haven't already read this book do so If you have read it again' Scotsman