Kesey, Ken

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, a novel by Ken Kesey ( Book )
183 editions published between 1962 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 11,473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world

Sailor song by Ken Kesey ( Book )
35 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 2,191 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 )
50 editions published between 1980 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,916 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 )
23 editions published between 1986 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,893 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 1,676 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 1,310 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 )
6 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 963 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 660 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 )
38 editions published between 1975 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 515 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 )
7 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 396 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