Bücher von Ken Kesey

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. 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. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. These interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

Eines der großen tragikomischen Bücher der Gegenwartsliteratur. Voller Realistik, unglaublichem Humor und Sympathie für die Opfer erzählt der junge Autor Ken Kesey von der ständigen Bevormundung der Insassen einer Heilanstalt. Der Film von Milos Forman mit Jack Nicholson in der Hauptrolle wurde mit fünf "Oscars" ausgezeichnet.