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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempts to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine Kesey's galvanizing novel probes the meaning of madness, often turning the conventional notion of sanity on its head, and offers and unforgettable portrait of a man teaching the value of self-reliance and laughter who is destroyed by the forces of hatred and fear.
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En eentje zag ze vliegen, Bert Koning, Ken Kesey
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- Released
- 1974
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- Subtitle
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Contact paperback
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Bert Koning, Ken Kesey
- Publisher
- Bert Bakker
- Released
- 1974
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 287
- ISBN10
- 9060192540
- ISBN13
- 9789060192542
- Series
- First published
- 1962
- Original title
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Rating
- 4.6 out of 5
- Description
- Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempts to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine Kesey's galvanizing novel probes the meaning of madness, often turning the conventional notion of sanity on its head, and offers and unforgettable portrait of a man teaching the value of self-reliance and laughter who is destroyed by the forces of hatred and fear.