One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By Ken Kesey

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey&#39;s One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. 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 electroshock 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&#39;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&#39;s Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.&#39;A glittering parable of good and evil&#39;The New York Times Book Review&#39;A roar of protest against middlebrow society&#39;s Rules and the Rulers who enforce them&#39;Time&#39;If you haven&#39;t already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again&#39;Scotsman

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. 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 electroshock therapy. But her regime is

By Ken Kesey

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