New Releases by Ken Kesey

"Un monde de carton-pâte peuplé de personnages en trompe-l'oeil, surgis de quelque histoire de fou qui serait vraiment drôle si ces héros n'étaient pas des types en chair et en os... " Devenu un classique contemporain, le roman de Ken Kesey, paru en 1962, n'a rien perdu de sa puissance. Il plonge dans le chaos d'un hôpital psychiatrique où l'infirmière en chef Ratched règne en maître sur son service. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de McMurphy, un criminel qui simule la folie pour échapper à la prison. Rebelle et gouailleur, bien décidé à redistribuer les cartes et à redonner un peu de dignité et d'espoir aux malades, il engage alors à ses risques et périls une résistance acharnée contre l'institution. Criant de vérité, Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou est une dénonciation en règle de l'enfermement psychiatrique, un hymne à la vie envers et contre tous. Une descente aux enfers grotesque et déjantée, que l'auteur transcende en hymne claironnant, féroce et souvent très drôle, à la liberté. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles. Avec ce roman, Ken Kesey s'est imposé comme l'un des romanciers phares de la contre-culture. Julien Bisson, Lire. Dessins inédits de Ken Kesey. Préface de Chuck Palahniuk. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Michel Deutsch et révisé par Virginie Buhl

The inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a seminal novel of the 1960s. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants—a counterculture classic that inspired the 1975 film adaptation, widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made.

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.

Et avslappende og rolig opphold på mentalsykehus er bedre enn å sitte bak lås og slå, mener småforbryteren Randie McMurphy. Han spiller sinnsyk såpass overbevisende at han blir innlagt blant "tullingene", som han velger å kalle sine medpasienter. Randie reagerer på de faste og strenge rutinene, og undres på om det er riktig at voksne menn skal dopes ned og subbe rundt i morgenkåper i stedet for å få se sport på TV. Det oppstår umiddelbar konflikt mellom Randie og hans strikse og kjølige sykepleier. Randie lever farlig, for sykehuset har sine metoder for å ta seg av vanskelige pasienter, og "ferieoppholdet" kan fort bli lengre enn beregnet.

Kesey's expanded version of the journals he kept while in San Mateo County Jail and Sheriff's Honor Camp in 1967.

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It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his father - about the legendary "last go round" that took place at the original Pendleton Round Up in 1911. Hundreds of riders were competing for the first World Championship Broncbusting title, but it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided the drama: a popular black cowboy, George Fletcher; a Nez Perce Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown; and a fresh-faced kid from Tennessee name of Johnathan E. Lee Spain. Who would walk away with the prize money and the silver-studded saddle? When the dust cleared, everyone knew they'd witnessed something extraordinary. Kesey has journeyed back into Oregon history to reclaim this long-remembered moment, beefed up the bare bones of fact, and whipped them into a full-blown rip-snorting Tale of the True West. Sixteen pages of rare Round Up photographs provide graphic testimony of the time. The tiny town of Pendleton is swollen to bursting that memorable weekend and bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "The Cruel Crusher" Gotch, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, and a formidable medicine man named Parson Montanic. From the teepees along the river to the teeming saloons on Main Street, Round Up fever blazes like a prairie fire. This story of love, sweat, and horseflesh is a unique Western, wild and wooly and full of fleas. Let 'er buck!

This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens—colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)—are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children's book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax. Writing with a spectacular range of language and style, Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America.

A highly pictorial re-examination of the " legendary" 1964 Merry Pranksters' trip across America made in a psychedelic bus, and featured in Jack Kerouac's novel Òn the road'.

Tricker may be a clever creature, but is he smart enough to bamboozle a double-big, double-hungry bear? From the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the illustrator of the Newbery Honor Book In the Beginning. Full color throughout.

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.

A miscellanea mostly by Kesey, some by his friends.