Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dark satire of psychiatric institution and patient rebellion against authority

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Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, one of the most beloved American novels of the 1960s, a mythic account of rebellion against institutional authority. Sometimes a Great Notion is an equally ambitious if less celebrated achievement.

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