One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
eBook - 2007
An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power ...of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking...
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Penguin Publishing Group
- Language
- English
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9781101209042 |
Release Date | 11/27/2007 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B000SWV680 |
Release Date | 11/27/2007 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781101209042 |
Release Date | 11/27/2007 |