One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital, it's the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgetable characters. On one side is Big Nurse, who rules her ward with iron discipline. On the other is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a lustful, brawling, life-loving new inmate who refuses to knuckle under to Big Nurse's soul-destoying methods. In the end, McMurphy pays the ultimate price for his defiancebut not before his rebellious spirit has shown Chief Bromden the way to reclaim his own future
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