Kesey, Ken.
Summary: In this classic 1960s novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy. You've never met anyone like Randle Patrick McMurphy. He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over. He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 1997
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Kesey, Ken.
Summary: In Alaska to film a famous children's book, the crew of a big-bucks Hollywood production company encounters a tribe of people who have had little contact with whites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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Summary: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1962
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 2012Kesey, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1986
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Summary: A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: Three cowboys of different races battle for a bronco busting title. The time is the 1910s, the setting a small town in Oregon swollen to bursting for the rodeo. One of the cowboys is black, one is an Indian and one is white. Lots of detail on roping, riding and bronco busting. By the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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Summary: Story which takes place at the Pendleton Roundup in 1911, which pitted three cowboys against one another as they rode for the first world broncobusting crown. A full-fledged tale of the true Old West, bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "the crusher" Gotch, horse racer Prairie Rose Henderson, medicine man Parson Montanic, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 1995Summary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMSummary: In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, set out on a cross-country bus trip from California to New York to visit the World's Fair. They also decided to record it, with several 16 mm movie cameras and audio tape. Compiled from more than 40 hours of footage shot during the journey, it was the magical mystery tour--fueled by both the countercultural sentiments of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010