One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Penguin, 2008 - Fiction - 281 pages
Randall P. McMurphy, a feisty misfit, leads his fellow mental patients to do battle for their rights against a repressive ward nurse. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey. | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975. | Performed by: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd. | Directed by Milos Forman ; screenplay by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; music by Jack Nitzsche. | Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. | In English. Subtitles in English, Arabic, English for the hearing impaired. | Region 4, PAL.

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Ken Kesey's previous work includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O.U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, and Sailor Song. His children's books include Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. He lives in Oregon. Ken Babbs (on the right of the photograph) and his wife, Eileen, and daughter, Elizabeth, live in Lost Creek, Oregon, where he writes and does his constructions. Ken Kesey was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Scowcroft and Frank O'Connor. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, his first novel, was published in 1962, His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964. His other books include Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O.U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round (with Ken Babbs). His two children's books are Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. Ken Kesey died on 10 November 2001.

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