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. Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Closing Theme) old along with sometimes a great notion was a seminal actor in these events. 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. " Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of the post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading.
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. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series) Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckooas Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden.
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