One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Description: An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy a ... (more)
Manufacturer : Signet
Release date : 1 February 1963
ISBN-10 : 0451163966 | ISBN-13: 9780451163967
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