{"product_id":"9780140043129","title":"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series \u003ci\u003eRatched\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ken Kesey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46931473170532,"sku":"9780140043129","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/0502\/0516\/files\/BNCImageAPI_52d394f2-68e9-45c8-a8b9-ff78a4a90bf7.jpg?v=1758821849","url":"https:\/\/larkspurbooks.ca\/products\/9780140043129","provider":"Larkspur Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}