One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Auteur: Ken Kesey (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman 1962
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: En ééntje zag ze vliegen
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest recensie, review en informatie
- “A roar of protest against middlebrow society’s Rules and the Rulers who enforce them.” (Time)
- “If you haven’t already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again.” (Scotsman)
- “A glittering parable of good and evil.” (The New York Times Book Review)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1962 van Ken Kesey
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the 
threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.