![]() ![]() here are two American masterpieces."- Los Angeles Times, "As in Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey brings to life people you will never forget. ![]() 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. 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 before he was 30. you cannot help but admire Kesey's vigor, his profligate command of the language. Set against the damp and brutal background of an Oregon logging community, the book by turns gasps, pants, whoops, and shrieks. Kesey in the fullness of his material discovers them for us." - The New York Times Book Review "A tremendous achievement. Beyond the PTA and the beer commercials, beyond the huge effluvium of the times, exist people who live by the ancient passions, and Mr. 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. ![]() 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. and then there is that great gift for comedy, for purely sensational writing. 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. "As in Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey brings to life people you will never forget. ![]()
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