One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Economics

Author: Ken Kesey

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and here.,,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 electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving tricks….Read More

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