Sometimes a Great Notion 永不让步

ken kesey Sometimes a Great Notion Introduction by charles bowden penguin books From the original reviews of Sometimes a Great Notion “As in Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey brings to life people you will never forget . . . Getting into this book is getting into a fascinating, crazy world of a fas- cinating, crazy family which has a throbbing reality and a desperate ded- ication to living . . . and then there is that great gift for comedy, for purely sensational writing. 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. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle “Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading . . . Beyond the PTA and the beer commercials, beyond the huge effluvium of the times, exist people who live by the ancient passions, and Mr. Kesey in the fullness of his material discovers them for us.” —Conrad Knickerbocker, The New York Times Book Review “A tremendous achievement . . . Set ag......