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KEN KESEY - GEBRAUCHT ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS...

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 climax. 
"BRILLIANT!"-Time  "A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!"-Mark Schorer  "Mr. Kesey
has created a world that is convincing  alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a
large  robust talent  and he has written a large  robust book."-Saturday Review

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