One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a vivid and unforgettable portrayal of power, conformity, and the struggle for self-determination.

When Randle Patrick McMurphy is institutionalized in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, he rallies the other patients of the mental ward around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. A fun-loving, boisterous fighter, McMurphy promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will.