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Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) - Paperback By Kesey, Ken - GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780143039860
- Book Title
- Sometimes a Great Notion
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Family Life, Literary
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 736 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143039865
ISBN-13
9780143039860
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53576659
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sometimes a Great Notion
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Classics, Family Life, Literary
Features
Revised
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-284369
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"As in Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey brings to life people you will never forget . . . Getting into this book is getting into a fascinating, crazy world of a fascinating, crazy family which has a throbbing reality and a desperate dedication to living . . . and then there is that great gift for comedy, for purely sensational writing. When Kesey describes the Canada honkers flying over the woods you can almost see them; when he describes the smells of the grass and the tastes of the strawberries you feel and you smell and you taste." --Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle " Sometimes a Great Notion , a big book in every way, captures the tenor of the post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading . . . Beyond the PTA and the beer commercials, beyond the huge effluvium of the times, exist people who live by the ancient passions, and Mr. Kesey in the fullness of his material discovers them for us." -- The New York Times Book Review "A tremendous achievement . . . Set against the damp and brutal background of an Oregon logging community, the book by turns gasps, pants, whoops, and shrieks . . . you cannot help but admire Kesey's vigor, his profligate command of the language. And you have to stand back in awe of the man's ability to create character." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer, "A contemporary classic."- Chicago Tribune "It's staggering that Kesey published [ One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion ] before he was 30. They're extraordinary in their drive, their capaciousness, their poetry, their human sympathy, and their laughter, which is always joined, in a Whitmaneseque way, by their feeling for death . . . here are two American masterpieces."- Los Angeles Times
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Grade To
UP
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., 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. 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6019.O9
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