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Ken Kesey and Charles Bowden
1964-2007
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The magnificent second novel from the legendary 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. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. * First time in Penguin Classics
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- Fiction
- Fiction in English
- Labor unions
- Literature
- Lumber trade
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- Strikes and lockouts
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A very, very good novel and less available than Kesey's more famous "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". It deserves to be more widely read. A narrative involving several characters in a small logging town and a long family history.