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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Set in an Oregon asylum, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the famous novel by Ken Kesey about insanity and the individual--with the concept of revolution figured in. The book is set in an Oregon insane asylum and centers around the struggles of patients to gain some sense of freedom in the repressive environment. Here are a few quotes from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of a number of works of art that came out of 1960s North America. Because of their counter-culture attitude and the distaste for any kind of social authority, these works became grouped together under the term Beat Literature. Read more about this book, with this review from James Topham.

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