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.
This
Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published
illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen.
اضافة اعلان
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's heroic
attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The cold war
between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched continues to escalate –—with McMurphy taking
his fellow inmates on a deep-sea fishing trip and hosting a late-night,
alcohol-fuelled, prostitute-attended party — until it culminates in the final
tragedy.
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