One flew over the cuckoo´s nest

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Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, this novel epitomizes the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition features a preface, unpublished illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her Oregon State mental hospital ward with a strict routine, unchallenged by her patients, who are subdued by medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. The arrival of McMurphy, a fun-loving trickster, disrupts her regime as he resolves to oppose her rules for the sake of his fellow inmates. Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient, narrates McMurphy's heroic struggle against the oppressive powers that keep them imprisoned. This exuberant and honest portrayal explores the fine line between sanity and madness. Ken Kesey, raised in Oregon and a graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford University, authored four novels, including this one and Sometimes a Great Notion, along with children's books and nonfiction. If you enjoyed this novel, you might also like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, available in Penguin Modern Classics. The New York Times Book Review describes it as "a glittering parable of good and evil," while Time calls it "a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them."