One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 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

a local boy

is relieved to move across the country

and The Shade of the Moon

Her team of investigators includes Othello

and bestselling author of Swamplandia

Nobody has her moves

Her diary is a record of every birth and death

Exposing babies to contrasting images has a positive impact on the development of visual-spatial skills and recognizing new objects

conversational voice

" —Lisa Wingate

of how the author became the person and the writer she is

A brilliant and touching romantic comedy about two polar opposites