Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness
and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix
original series Ratched
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.