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Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey (1935–2001) was an American novelist and countercultural figure, best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and for leading the Merry Pranksters and the Acid Tests.

Born September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado; died November 10, 2001. Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). Key figure in 1960s US counterculture and leader of the Merry Pranksters.

A single DeBaser review praises Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for its visionary, delicate style and powerful depiction of institutional life. The reviewer notes differences between novel and film and highlights McMurphy's humanizing impact. Recommended to readers of dramatic, non-mawkish fiction.

For:Readers of 1960s American literature, fans of counterculture and dramatic novels about institutions.

 I don't understand. He seems like a great author, judging by this novel; a dramatic author endowed with a very personal style and an otherworldly, visionary, and very delicate storytelling ability; yet, this book is the only one, among his, to have been published in our language.

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