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Keseys most recent novel was Demon Box (1987) although it was somewhat well received, it was still compared unfavorably to his earlier works. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Keseys Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) is a long, complex novel that troubled many of his earlier readers. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers.

This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestįollowing the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century.

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