Carolyn Kellogg asks: does the novel stand up alone?
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| 50th Anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
As Ken Kesey's novel,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, reaches its fiftieth anniversary, Carolyn Kellogg of the
Los Angeles Times asks whether it still stands up: 'So with the new edition making it easy, I wondered if I could read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" as one might have 50 years ago. I would try to set aside five decades of history and massive cultural shifts, set aside all I casually knew about Kesey and his failure of promise. Since I'd missed it in the curves of my education and never gotten around to reading it as an adult, I might evaluate it on its merits, nothing more. Could it hold up?' [
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