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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles.
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Ken Kesey has 71 books on Goodreads with 1609476 ratings. Ken Kesey’s most popular book is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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Was Ken Kesey a good writer?
Commenting in the Saturday Review in a 1964 piece entitled " Beatnik in Lumberjack Country", critic Granville Hicks wrote: "In his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey demonstrated that he was a forceful, inventive and ambitious writer. All of these qualities are exhibited, in even higher degree, in Sometimes a Great Notion.

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How old was Ken Kesey when he died?
Kesey died in 2001 after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver. He was 66 years old. The classic American novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has hit the half-century mark. It made its author, Ken Kesey, a literary celebrity — and helped alter perceptions of mental institutions.

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Which Kesey Book is more famous than One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut trees for a local mill in opposition to unionized workers who are on strike.

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What does Mr Kesey do in his unusual novel?
What Mr. Kesey has done in his unusual novel is to transform the plight of a ward of inmates in a mental hospital into a glittering parable of good and evil.” –The New York Times Book Review “ [A] brilliant first novel . . . a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil . . .

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- Death Date: November 10, 2001
- Birth Date: September 17, 1935
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- Sometimes a Great Notion.
- Sailor Song.
- Demon Box.
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Feb 1, 2012 · Ken Kesey, the late author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in California in 1984. Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis. Fifty years ago — on Feb. 1, 1962 — a first novel appeared that would make its...
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About One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey’s searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.
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