This Special Edition includes a 1989 interview from public radio's Fresh Air in which Terry Gros speaks with Ken Kesey about the influences and inspirations for his most important novels, and his status as a 1960's counter-culture icon.
year: 2002, 1963, 1977, 2003, 1962, 1973, 2007, 1989, 1992, 2008, 1994, 2006, 1999, 2012, 2010, 1975, 1997, 1993
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: psychiatric hospital patients, fiction, psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nurses, mentally ill, oregon, fiction, united states, kesey, ken, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, american fiction, history and criticism, medical novels, allegories, fiction, large print books, large type books, 1935-2001, mental illness, video recordings for the hearing impaired, drama, patients, nurse and patient, compact discs, audiobooks, psychological fiction, medical novels, psychological, fiction, allegories
Editions
Kesey, Ken
Viking (2002)
A fortieth anniversary edition of the novel that chronicles the power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with illustrations, and an introduction by the author.
Schools: 3
Kesey, Ken
Signet (1963)
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence, and death.
Schools: 29
Kesey, Ken
Penguin Books (1977)
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence, and death.
Schools: 1
Kesey, Ken
Penguin Books (2003)
A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse. Includes line drawings by the author.
Schools: 5
Kesey, Ken
Signet (1962)
You've never met anyone like Randle Patrick McMurphy...He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over...
Schools: 2
Kesey, Ken
Viking Press (1973)
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
Penguin Books (2007)
The story of inmates fighting back against authority in a mental asylum ward run by a cruel nurse.
Schools: 3
Kesey, Ken
New American Library (1989)
Schools: 1
Kesey, Ken
Recorded Books Productions (1992)
Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.
Schools: 1
Kesey, Ken
Blackstone Audiobooks (2008)
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence and death.
Schools: 2
Kesey, Ken
Thorndike Press (1994)
Schools: 1
Kesey, Ken
HighBridge Company (2006)
This Special Edition includes a 1989 interview from public radio's Fresh Air in which Terry Gros speaks with Ken Kesey about the influences and inspirations for his most important novels, and his status as a 1960's counter-culture icon.
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
Penguin Books (1999)
A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse.
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
Viking (2012)
A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse.
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
Warner Home Video (2010)
A high-spirited petty criminal fakes mental illness in order to reduce his sentence at the prison work farm.
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
New American Library (1975)
Schools: 6
Kesey, Ken
Blackstone AudioBooks (1997)
Schools: 1
Republic Pictures Corporation (1993)
It's the story of McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) whose rebelliousness pits him againest Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) and the full spectrum of institutional repression, and whose vital charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.
Schools: 0
Kesey, Ken
Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.
Schools: 2