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Influenced by the empiricism of Bacon and the ''aestheticism'' of Schiller, he posited a hard moral autonomy free of all formal principles and predetermined systems, even the liberal's...
- Any Dream May Come True - The New York Times
“Sometimes a Great Notion,” a big book in every way,...
- ' Sometimes a Great Notion':Story of ... - The New York Times
"Sometimes a Great Notion," Ken Kesey's second novel,...
- Any Dream May Come True - The New York Times
Feb 27, 2012 · Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. 628 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1964.
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“Sometimes a Great Notion,” a big book in every way, captures the tenor of post‐Korea America as nothing I can remember reading.
Mar 2, 1972 · "Sometimes a Great Notion," Ken Kesey's second novel, adapted by John Gay and directed by Paul Newman, opened at 22 theaters here yesterday, which probably means that it will be in and out of...
And they've come abundantly in Sometimes A Great Notion, a novel of mammoth size and proportion: eloquently gritty, uncompromisingly exhaustive, big, bold, unique and haunting. It begins when Lee Stamper returns home after 12 years in the East.
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Nov 29, 2012 · This story of a fight between striking loggers and an independent family logging business takes on mythic dimensions. Kesey pulls out all the stops in this novel: Shifting the action of the story to a completely different character as well as a different locality in just a short piece of dialogue.
May 1, 2013 · A century and a half of footloose, hardscrabble Stampers have beaten their way across the continent, finally staking a claim along the perpetually eroding banks of the Wakonda Auga River, where they are embroiled in a bitter fight with the union that protects their fellow townsmen.
