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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Trade paperback in VG condition, clean with no writing, marks or creases. The binding is tight with no spine creases, small chip on the upper corner of the cover.
Synopsis
An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rock River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 323
- Title
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Author
- Ken Kesey
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 311
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor;
Terms of Sale
Rock River Books
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About the Seller
Rock River Books
Biblio member since 2019
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina
About Rock River Books
Specializing in items of interest for discerning readers. Curated catalogs include nonfiction, theology, fiction, children's, antiquarian and collectable items. Books are described individually, no boilerplate descriptions, shipped promptly. We strive to provide quality items and excellent customer service. All books are packed with care in appropriate protective materials. Cardboard is used for hardcover books.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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