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Sometimes a Great Notion

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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
    Release Year
    1977
    ISBN
    9780140045291
    Category

    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Penguin Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0140045295
    ISBN-13
    9780140045291
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    47905

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    Number of Pages
    640 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Classics, Family Life, Literary
    Publication Year
    1977
    Genre
    Fiction
    Author
    Ken Kesey
    Format
    Uk-B Format Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.4 in
    Item Weight
    15 oz
    Item Length
    7.8 in
    Item Width
    5.1 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    87-029184
    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, "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
    Grade From
    Twelfth Grade
    Dewey Decimal
    813/.54
    Grade To
    UP
    Synopsis
    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 crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
    LC Classification Number
    PS3561.E667S6 1988

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