One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyPitching 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. 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

and the sources that inspired his work: from myth

spread and fade away with bewildering speed

Stubborn Amina

By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged

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An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller

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Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits

Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past