One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Kesey, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780451163967
• ISBN10: 0451163966
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1963-02-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

Author Biography

Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Standford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow."

Table of Contents

Life and Background of the Author

Introduction to the Novel

Critical Commentaries

They're Out There

When the Fog Clears

The New Man

In the Glass Station

Before Noontime

One Christmas

First Time for a Long, Long Time

Come Morning

All Through Breakfast

There's a Monopoly Game

There's Long Spells

A Visiting Doctor

It's Getting Hard

There's a Shipment of Frozen Parts

I Know How They Work It

Just at the Edge of My Vision

The Way the Big Nurse Acted

In the Group Meetings

Up Ahead of Me

Whatever It Was

They Take Me with the Acutes Sometimes

I Remember It Was Friday Again

Crossing the Grounds

After That

Two Whores

The Big Nurse

Up on Disturbed

There Had Been Times

I've Given What Happened Next

Character Analyses

Critical Essays

CliffsNotes Review

CliffsNotes Resource Center

Index

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