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. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. 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 and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the
mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting
a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other
patients to join him in