Ken Kesey

A parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its 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...

Exploring the author's experiences of foreign excursions, family, farm, and society, this collection of nonfictional works features the title essay on the energy of madness.

Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy and the Grateful Dead star in this rollicking film about the Merry Pranksters, created from never-before-seen footage of their legendary, acid-fueled cross-country road trip in 1965. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.

Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.

1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest, ' set off on a legendary cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair, joined by 'The Merry Band of Pranksters, ' a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's 'On the Road, ' and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

Wartime heroics of a courageous British woman who captures a Nazi pilot, cares for her children, and endures the loss of her home and family; as three friends try to find work in Paris, two of them fall in love with the same woman; a rebellious patient battles Nurse Ratched and the mental institution he has been sent to; story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur; rookie cop Billy Costigan infiltrates...