Kesey, Ken

Overview

Works:	430 works in 1,503 publications in 9 languages and 49,917 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Psychological fiction Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc Satire Film adaptations Juvenile works Short stories, American Domestic fiction Biography
Roles:	Bibliographic antecedent, Interviewee, Dedicatee, Performer, Creator, Signer, Scenarist, Contributor, Speaker, Author of introduction, Illustrator, Narrator, Conceptor
Classifications:	PS3561.E667, 813.54

Publication Timeline

1960 |

|2020

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Publications about Ken Kesey

Publications by Ken Kesey

Publications by Ken Kesey, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Ken Kesey

The electric kool-aid acid test by Tom Wolfe ( Book )
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Miloš Forman ( Visual )
Beyond the waste land: a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties by Raymond M Olderman ( Book )
City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner ( Book )
Ken Kesey by Stephen L Tanner ( Book )

Ken Kesey by Barry H Leeds ( Book )
In the singer's temple : prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski by Jack Hicks ( Book )
The last laugh : form and affirmation in the contemporary American comic novel by Ronald Wallace ( Book )
Acid Christ Ken Kesey, LSD and the politics of ecstasy by Mark Christensen ( )
The contemporary American comic epic : the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey by Elaine B Safer ( Book )
The open decision; the contemporary American novel and its intellectual background by Jerry H Bryant ( Book )
The American 1960's ; imaginative acts in a decade of change by Jerome Klinkowitz ( Book )
The beat generation and the popular novel in the United States, 1945-1970 by Thomas Newhouse ( Book )
The art of grit : Ken Kesey's fiction by M. Gilbert Porter ( Book )
Women, women writers, and the West by L. L Lee ( Book )
Kesey's garage sale by Ken Kesey ( Book )
On the bus : the complete guide to the legendary trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the birth of the counterculture by Paul Perry ( Book )
Kesey's jail journal : cut the m************ loose by Ken Kesey ( Book )
Seasoned authors for a new season : the search for standards in popular writing : a question of quality #2 ( Book )
It's all a kind of magic : the young Ken Kesey by Rick Dodgson ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Ken Kesey

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, a novel by Ken Kesey ( Book )
311 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 11,527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world

Sometimes a great notion : a novel by Ken Kesey ( Book )
91 editions published between 1963 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,937 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Stampers, a logging family pit by circumstance against big business, are rough, hard men and women who live by the motto "never give an inch." Added to the turmoil is the return of Leland, a dope-smoking, college educated half brother whose arrival triggers a tidal wave of events that spiral gradually out of control

Sailor song by Ken Kesey ( Book )
27 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
After writing two books in the early 1960s, both now established as American classics, Ken Kesey abandoned the novel in its established form. Over the past twenty-five years he has written many shorter pieces, but only now, with Sailor Song, brings his considerable powers once again to bear on a full-scale undertaking, giving us a unique and powerful novel about America. Set in the near future, the story takes us to the Alaskan village of Kuinak, a rundown fishing community of Deaps (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples) and Lower Forty-eight refugees perched on the Western Edge of history. It's a scene rich with characters, like Alice the Angry Aleut, Ike Sallas (known as "the Bakatcha Bandit" during the environmental wars of the nineties), the town's indispensable "scoot" runner Billy the Squid, and the Loyal Order of Underdogs, who meet monthly for the Full Moon Howl. Into their peculiar midst sails a mighty ship of last hopes, loaded to the gunwales with a big-bucks Hollywood film company. This famous studio/yacht has come north to film a classic children's book, The Sea Lion. Unscripted transformations abound as the project stirs a new mix into the community, including a tribe brought down from the remote north. Sailor Song is an epic novel that revolves around the question: Does love make any sense at the end of the world? It's about things that endure and come around again - back at you, and back to you

One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey ( Recording )
60 editions published between 1962 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of inmates fighting back against authority in a mental asylum ward run by a cruel nurse

Demon box by Ken Kesey ( Book )
19 editions published between 1986 and 1987 in English and held by 1,831 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this collection of short stories, Ken Kesey challenges public and private demons with a wrestler's brave and deceptive embrace, making it clear that the energy of madness must live on

Last go round by Ken Kesey ( Book )
16 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Little Tricker the squirrel meets Big Double the bear by Ken Kesey ( Book )
5 editions published between 1988 and 1992 in English and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Little Tricker the squirrel watches as Big Double the bear terrorizes the forest animals one by one, but then Little Tricker gets revenge

The Further inquiry by Ken Kesey ( Book )
5 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 955 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"'The Further inquiry' is Kesey's reexamination of the [1964 cross-country psychedelic] adventure, twenty-five years later, in the form of the 'trial' of Neal Cassady's spirit ... with more than 150 previously unpublished color photos by Ron 'Hassler' Bevrit, additional images from Allen Ginsberg's collection, and verbatim transcripts of key episodes ..." --dust jacket

The sea lion : a story of the sea cliff people by Ken Kesey ( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 1995 in English and held by 654 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Although taunted for his small size and bad leg, Eemook proves his worth by saving his tribe from an evil and powerful spirit that comes visiting one stormy night

One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Miloš Forman ( Visual )
68 editions published between 1962 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 564 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Magic trip Ken Kesey's search for a kool place ( Visual )
8 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 the time and lots of LSD--that became legend. The participants were not beatniks, not-yet-hippies, but a group of preppy-looking partygoers, outfitted in red, white, and blue, whose traveling bacchanal zigzagged across the country. In those more relaxed times, the Pranksters encountered only sporadic harassment, as they spread low-key mayhem in Phoenix, New Orleans, Houston, and the Millbrook, N.Y. estate where Timothy Leary held court. The film record of this famous bohemian lark is uneven, befitting an unsteady (if borderline revolutionary) group in a time of widespread cultural upheaval

Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco by Ken Kesey ( Book )
39 editions published between 1962 and 2009 in Spanish and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Spanish translation of "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". A mordant, subversive 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 quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results

En eentje zag ze vliegen by Ken Kesey ( Book )
8 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in Dutch and Undetermined and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
De pogingen van een nieuwe patiënt, die door krankzinnigheid te simuleren het ijzeren regime in een psychiatrische inrichting wil doorbreken, lijken aanvankelijk succes te hebben

Sometimes a great notion by Ken Kesey ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel

Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou : roman by Ken Kesey ( Book )
24 editions published between 1976 and 2013 in French and held by 104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dans une maison de santé, une redoutable infirmière terrorise ses pensionnaires et fait régner un ordre de fer, grâce à un arsenal de traitements de choc, réduisant ses pensionnaires à une existence quasi-végétative. Surgit alors McMurphy, un colosse irlandais, braillard et remuant, qui a choisi l'asile pour échapper à la prison

Last go round a real western by Ken Kesey ( Recording )
6 editions published between 1994 and 1996 in English and held by 91 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Tie-died rock 'n roll's most deadicated fans ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of rock 'n' roll's fabled subculture, the fans of the rock group the Grateful Dead. The documentary follows the journey of the fans across the country on one of the group's final tours, in 1994

Timothy Leary's last trip ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A behind the scences look at the life of Dr. Timothy Leary, pioneer in psychology and consciousness raising in the 1960's

Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest : Roman by Ken Kesey ( Book )
39 editions published between 1972 and 2012 in German and English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der packende Roman schildert den Aufstand von Patienten in einer amerikanischen "Klapsmühle", die sich gegen die unmenschlichen Behandlungspraktiken auflehnen

Lot nad kukułczym gniazdem by Ken Kesey ( Book )
31 editions published between 1981 and 2009 in Polish and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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