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Sometimes a Great Notion

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By Ken Kesey; Ken Kesey
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - (Penguin (Non-Classics))
Sometimes a Great Notion
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The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Sailor Song is a wildspirited 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 Hanks exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henrys 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 familys rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

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280184 words280,184 words
640 pages640 pages
Lexile 1020LLexile 1020L
Published 1977Published 1977

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9780140045291

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