What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)?
{{italic title}} '''''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''''' is a [[novel]]. It was written in 1959 by [[Ken Kesey]]. It was published in 1962. It is set in a [[mental asylum]] in [[Oregon]] which is run by the [[:wikt:tyrannical|tyrannical]] [[Nurse]] Ratched and where the new [[patient]] Randle McMurphy [[:wikt:rebel|rebels]] against her. It was [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)|made into]] a [[movie]] in 1975 that was directed by [[Miloš Forman]]. The movie stars [[Jack Nicholson]] as the patient Randle McMurphy and [[Louise Fletcher]] as Nurse Ratched. It was very popular, and won 5 [[Academy Awards]]. The novel's writer, Kesey, disliked the movie, because it did not take the [[perspective]] (view) of a [[Native American]] character, Chief Bromden (a more important character in the book than in the movie). It was a very [[controversy|controversial]] book when it was [[publishing|published]]. The novel is now considered a [[:wikt:classic|classic]]. {{lit-stub}} [[Category:1959 books]] [[Category:20th-century American novels]] [[Category:Oregon]] [[Category:Suicide in fiction]] [[Category:Works about prostitution]] [[Category:Mental disorders in fiction]]