KEN KESEY

Antes de que el LSD y las andanzas con los Alegres Bromistas (relatadas por Tom Wolfe en Ponche de ácido lisérgico) le convirtieran en uno de los personajes míticos del underground de los años sesenta, Ken Kesey ya había publicado Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco, una auténtica «novela de culto». En 1960 Ken Kesey, estudiante univer...

Admission. Everybody stops playing cards and Monopoly, turns towards the day-room door. Most days I'd be out sweeping the hall and see who they're signing in, but this morning, like I explain to you, the Big Nurse put a thousand pounds down me and I can't budge out of the chair. Most days I'm the first one to see the Admission, watch him creep i...

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick...