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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Author: Ken Kesey When Kesey decided to take on the hypocrisy, cruelty and enforced conformity of modern life, he dug into his own experiences as a test subject in a mental hospital. In Cuckoo's Nest the irrepressible inmate Randle McMurphy does battle with the icy, power-mad Nurse Ratched to liberate, or at least breathe a little life into, the crushed and cowed patients she lords it over, while the book's stonily silent narrator Chief Bromden looks on. Both an allegory of individualism and a heart-tearing psychological drama, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest manages to be uplifting without giving an inch to the seductions of sentimentality.L.G.
From the TIME Archive: Sordid sights and sounds abound, but Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary TIME Magazine, Feb. 16, 1962 (Read This Review) Next: The Painted Bird » More From the Archive: Great Books for Grown-Ups (6/10/46) Dirty Book of the Month (4/22/66) How and What to Read (10/2/72) Dame Agatha: Queen of the Maze (1/26/76) Rediscovering the Joy of Text (4/21/97) Harry Potter Archive Collection Writers in TIME Archive Collection
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