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(0)Ken Kesey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Kesey's work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise,...
12) Magic trip
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest, ' set off on a legendary cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair, joined by 'The Merry Band of Pranksters, ' a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's 'On the Road, ' and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
14) Magic trip
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1964 Ken Kesey, the famed author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' set off on a legendary, LSD-fueled cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair, joined by 'The Merry Band of Pranksters,' a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's 'On the Road,' and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.