Research Catalog

Title

One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; text and criticism edited by John Clark Pratt.

Author

Kesey, Ken.

Publication

New York : Viking Press, c1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pratt, John Clark.

Description

xviii, 560 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

The Viking critical library

Subjects

• Annotations (Provenance)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Embossed stamps (Provenance)
• Kesey, Ken > One flew over the cuckoo's nest > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Embossed stamps (Provenance)

Note

• Third printing, May 1975--verso of t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 559-560.

Provenance (note)

• Berg Coll. copy inscribed by the author to Ann and Sam Charters, , dated 1973--Verso of front cover.

Contents

One flew over the cuckoo's nest : the text / Ken Kesey -- The author and his work. What do you think of my Buddha? / Tom Wolfe -- An early draft of the opening scene of One flew over the cuckoo's nest ; Letter to Ken Babbs : ("peyote and point of view") ; Letter to Ken Babbs : ("people on the ward") ; An impolite interview with Ken Kesey ; "Ken Kesey was a successful dope fiend" [interview] / Ken Kesey -- Literary criticism. The RPM / Jack F. McComb -- The higher sentimentality / Leslie A. Fiedler -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest and the comic strip / Terry G. Sherwood -- The humor in the horror / James E. Miller, Jr.-- Two novelists of the absurd : Heller and Kesey / Joseph J. Waldmeir -- Ken Kesey : the hero in modern dress / John A. Barsness -- Ken Kesey : One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Irving Malin -- Porno-politics / Robert Boyers -- Review of the play / Harold Clurman -- And the young flew over the cuckoo's nest / Walter Kerr -- Letter to the editor of The New York Times / Marcia L. Falk -- Analogies and perspectives. From his play One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Dale Wasserman -- Glimpses of postlobotomy personalities / Mary Frances Robinson and Walter Freeman -- Shock and other physical therapies / Arthur P. Noyes and Lawrence C. Kolb -- From Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- From All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Neal Cassady / Ken Kesey -- From On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Topics for discussion and papers.

Call Number

Berg Coll Kesey O66 1975

ISBN

• 0670526053
• 0670018090 (pbk.)

LCCN

72078993

OCLC

862459

Author

Kesey, Ken.

Title

One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey ; text and criticism edited by John Clark Pratt.

Imprint

New York : Viking Press, c1973.

Series

The Viking critical library

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 559-560.

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy inscribed by the author to Ann and Sam Charters, , dated 1973--Verso of front cover.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy contains ms. notes by Ann Charters? on p. 559.

Berg Coll. copy contains ADC embossed stamp on t.p.

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Added Author

Pratt, John Clark.

Charters, Ann. Former owner

Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Kesey O66 1975