And you have to stand back in awe of the man's ability to create character. you cannot help but admire Kesey's vigor, his profligate command of the language. Set against the damp and brutal background of an Oregon logging community, the book by turns gasps, pants, whoops, and shrieks. Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey Themagnicent second novel fromthe legendary author of OneFlew Over the Cuckoos NestFollowing the astonishingsuccess of his rst novel, OneFlew Over the Cuckoos Nest,Ken Kesey wrote what CharlesBowden calls 'one of the fewessential books written by anAmerican in the last halfcentury. Kesey in the fullness of his material discovers them for us.' Beyond the PTA and the beer commercials, beyond the huge effluvium of the times, exist people who live by the ancient passions, and Mr. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch Hank, the son who has spent. His two childrens books are Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Levon), The Further Inquiry, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round (with Ken Babbs).

His other books include Keseys Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O. ' Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of the post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading. His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964. When Kesey describes the Canada honkers flying over the woods you can almost see them when he describes the smells of the grass and the tastes of the strawberries you feel and you smell and you taste.' and then there is that great gift for comedy, for purely sensational writing.

Getting into this book is getting into a fascinating, crazy world of a fascinating, crazy family which has a throbbing reality and a desperate dedication to living. 'As in Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey brings to life people you will never forget.

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