| Sometimes a Great Notion Contributor(s): Kesey, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140045295 ISBN-13: 9780140045291 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1977 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 77004998 |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.05" W x 7.74" (0.93 lbs) 640 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Oregon |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |