Kesey, Ken
Overview
| Works: | 551 works in 2,148 publications in 22 languages and 51,920 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Psychological fiction Drama Medical fiction Film adaptations Satire Criticism, interpretation, etc Domestic fiction Medical films (Motion pictures) Juvenile works |
| Roles: | Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Narrator, Other, Interviewee, Speaker, Creator, Dedicatee, Contributor, Signer, Performer, Author of introduction, Illustrator, wpr, Conceptor, Singer, Honoree, Commentator |
| Classifications: | PS3561.E667, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Ken Kesey
- The electric kool-aid acid test by Tom Wolfe( Book )
- Beyond the waste land: a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties by Raymond M Olderman( Book )
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman( Visual )
- It's all a kind of magic : the young Ken Kesey by Rick Dodgson( )
- City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner( Book )
- Acid Christ : Ken Kesey, LSD and the politics of ecstasy by Mark Christensen( )
- 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 )
- Ken Kesey by Julie Von Bergen( )
- 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 )
- Conversations with Ken Kesey by Ken Kesey( )
- 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 )
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Most widely held works by
Ken Kesey
One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a novel by
Ken Kesey(
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559 editions published between 1962 and 2018 in 19 languages and held by 12,212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world
559 editions published between 1962 and 2018 in 19 languages and held by 12,212 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
)
140 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The second novel from the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy
140 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The second novel from the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy
Sailor song by
Ken Kesey(
Book
)
43 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,907 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
43 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,907 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
)
108 editions published between 1962 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,715 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of inmates fighting back against authority in a mental asylum ward run by a cruel nurse
108 editions published between 1962 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,715 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
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35 editions published between 1986 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,666 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
35 editions published between 1986 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,666 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
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17 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,460 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
17 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,460 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
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5 editions published between 1988 and 1992 in English and held by 1,091 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
5 editions published between 1988 and 1992 in English and held by 1,091 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
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7 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 812 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 ..."--Jacket
7 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 812 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 ..."--Jacket
The sea lion : a story of the sea cliff people by
Ken Kesey(
Book
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5 editions published between 1991 and 1995 in English and held by 564 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
5 editions published between 1991 and 1995 in English and held by 564 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
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93 editions published between 1975 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Randall P. McMurphy, a feisty misfit, leads his fellow mental patients to do battle for their rights against a repressive ward nurse. DVD
93 editions published between 1975 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Randall P. McMurphy, a feisty misfit, leads his fellow mental patients to do battle for their rights against a repressive ward nurse. DVD
Magic trip : Ken Kesey's search for a kool place(
Visual
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8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 435 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
8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 435 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
Best of the Realist(
Book
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1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gathers interviews, cartoons, satirical articles, and essays published in the underground magazine between 1958 and its last issue in 1974
1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gathers interviews, cartoons, satirical articles, and essays published in the underground magazine between 1958 and its last issue in 1974
The World begins here : an anthology of Oregon short fiction(
Book
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This first of a six-volume anthology of literature by Oregonians or about Oregon contains old and new short stories and some Native American oral tales
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This first of a six-volume anthology of literature by Oregonians or about Oregon contains old and new short stories and some Native American oral tales
Sometimes a great notion by
Ken Kesey(
Recording
)
7 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in English and held by 119 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
7 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in English and held by 119 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
En eentje zag ze vliegen by
Ken Kesey(
Book
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13 editions published between 1974 and 2015 in Dutch and Undetermined and held by 117 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
13 editions published between 1974 and 2015 in Dutch and Undetermined and held by 117 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
Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest : Roman by
Ken Kesey(
Book
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35 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in German and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der packende Roman schildert den Aufstand von Patienten in einer amerikanischen 'Klapsmühle', die sich gegen die unmenschlichen Behandlungspraktiken auflehnen. SW: Sozialkritischer Roman
35 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in German and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der packende Roman schildert den Aufstand von Patienten in einer amerikanischen 'Klapsmühle', die sich gegen die unmenschlichen Behandlungspraktiken auflehnen. SW: Sozialkritischer Roman
Last go round : a real western by
Ken Kesey(
Recording
)
8 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 70 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
8 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 70 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
The tomorrow show(
Visual
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead
2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by
Ken Kesey(
Book
)
11 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 63 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
11 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 63 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
Timothy Leary's last trip(
Visual
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7 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A behind the scences look at the life and influence of Dr. Timothy Leary, pioneer in psychology and consciousness raising in the 1960's. Discusses the work of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
7 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A behind the scences look at the life and influence of Dr. Timothy Leary, pioneer in psychology and consciousness raising in the 1960's. Discusses the work of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
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Related Identities
- Wolfe, Tom Author
- Barth, John
- Merry Band of Pranksters
- Vonnegut, Kurt Criticism and interpretation
- Brautigan, Richard
- Babbs, Ken Other Instrumentalist Author Narrator
- Pynchon, Thomas Dedicatee
- Heller, Joseph
- Barthelme, Donald
- Nicholson, Jack Other Performer Actor
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Alaska American fiction American literature Barth, John Barthelme, Donald Borges, Jorge Luis, Brautigan, Richard Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Burroughs, William S., Cassady, Neal Conroy, Frank, Cowboys Drug addiction Ellison, Ralph Gaddis, William, Gass, William H., Hawkes, John, Heller, Joseph Hippies Humorous stories, American Kerouac, Jack, Kesey, Ken LSD (Drug) Mailer, Norman Malamud, Bernard Mentally ill Merry Band of Pranksters Motion picture industry Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Kesey, Ken) Oregon Oregon--Pendleton Pendleton Round-Up Percy, Walker, Plath, Sylvia Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospitals Psychiatric nurses Purdy, James Pynchon, Thomas Rodeos Roth, Philip Short stories Sontag, Susan, Strikes and lockouts--Lumber trade Travel United States Updike, John Vonnegut, Kurt Wolfe, Tom
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Alternative Names
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey Ameerika Ühendriikide romaanikirjanik
Ken Kesey American novelist
Ken Kesey americký spisovateľ
Ken Kesey Amerikaans schrijver
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Ken Kesey amerikansk skribent
Ken Kesey amerykański pisarz
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Ken Kesey novelist amerikan
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Ken Kesey romancier american
Ken Kesey romanopisec
Ken Kesey scrittore statunitense
Ken Kesey US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Aktionskünstler
Ken Kizi
Kenas Kesis
Kens Kīzijs
Kesey, Ken 1935-...
Kesey, Ken Elton
Kesey, Ken Elton 1935-2001
Kesey, Kenneth Elton.
Kesey, Kenneth Elton 1935-2001
Keyse, Kenn 1935-2001
Kīsī, Kīn, 1935-2001
Kizi, Ken
Kizi, Ken 1935-2001
Kīzijs, Kens
Kizis K.
Kizis Kenas
Levon, O. U. (1935-2001)
Кен Кизи
Кен Киси
Кен Кізі
Кизи Кен
Кизи, Кен американский писатель
Киси К.Э. 1935-2001
Կեն Կիզի
קן קיזי מחבר רומנים אמריקאי
كين كيسي روائي أمريكي
کن کیسی نویسنده آمریکایی
ਕੇਨ ਕੇਸੀ
კენ კიზი
케지, 켄 1935-2001
케지, 켄 엘톤 1935-2001
켄 키지
키지, 켄 1935-2001
キージー, ケン
ケン・キージー
肯·克西
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