Finished Sa 11/15/14
The October selection for the Classic Book Club
What a triumphant ending....Makes ya want to stand up and cheer!
Link at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(novel)
Ken Kesey at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
A few days ago I began reading THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST by Tom Wolfe to get some background on Kesey. Kesey must have changed immensely in the couple of years since he wrote 'Cuckoo' and when he formed The Pranksters.
In 1962 he was working at a psychiatric hospital near Stanford in Palo Alto and working on a book about Beatniks in North Beach, San Francisco when he came up for the themes and ideas in 'Cuckoo'.
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