Ken Kesey

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967 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 electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

Zbor deasupra unui cuib de cuci, romanul care a lăsat urme de neșters în literatura contemporană, este povestea zguduitoare a paciențlor dintr-un ospiciu condus cu mână de fier de sora-șefă Ratched, adepta unor metode de tratament barbare, precum electroșocurile și lobotomia. Singurul care i se opune este scandalagiul Randle Patrick McMurphy, simbolul revoltei împotriva autorității tiranice. Prin ochii altui pacient, șeful Bromden, un indian uriaș, asistăm la încleștarea dintre cei doi, care capătă proporții aproape mitologice. --back cover