{"product_id":"one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-by-ken-kesey-1","title":"'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSet inside an Oregon psychiatric hospital and narrated by the supposedly deaf and mute Chief Bromden, \u003cem\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest\u003c\/em\u003e is Kesey’s great novel of institutional power.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInto the ward comes Randle P. McMurphy, a gambler, brawler and spectacular nuisance who has arranged his transfer from a prison work farm under the assumption that psychiatric confinement will be the easier option. Instead, he meets Nurse Ratched and a regime whose violence works largely through routine, surveillance, humiliation and the careful regulation of behaviour. The struggle between them gives the novel its famous rebellious energy, but Chief Bromden’s hallucinatory narration makes it stranger than its countercultural reputation sometimes suggests: machinery grows behind the walls, people become enormous or disappear into fog, and the institution begins to resemble an entire social order rather than merely a hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1962 just before Kesey became a central figure in the American counterculture, the novel sits at an interesting crossing point between Beat-era rebellion, emerging anti-psychiatric thought and the coming cultural upheavals of the 1960s. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is particularly good: it reproduces Kesey’s own illustrations alongside his later preface, with an introduction by Robert Faggen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Books \/ Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2005. Paperback. Edition with illustrations by Ken Kesey and introduction by Robert Faggen, originally published by Viking Penguin in 2002. Light shelf wear and minor handling to covers; pages clean and binding sound. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46024473313363,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_69.png?v=1787642044","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-by-ken-kesey-1","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}