KESEY, Ken.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. First edition, first printing, review copy with the publisher's slip loosely inserted. Contemporary critics hailed Kesey's countercultural classic as "a brilliant parable of the individual fighting against an oppressive, conformist society and placed it in the American literary tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman in advocating self-reliance and personal sovereignty" (ANB). Published during the height of the anti-psychiatry movement, Kesey's debut novel draws from his experiences working as an aide and test subject at a veterans hospital in California. The work inspired the Broadway adaptation of the following year, the critically acclaimed film of 1975, and a multitude of censorship campaigns, becoming one of the most frequently banned books in America.

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