by Ken Kesey · 1962
Narrated by Chief Bromden, a large half-Indian patient who feigns deafness and muteness on a psychiatric ward run by the controlling Big Nurse (Ratched), the novel follows Randle McMurphy, a brash new patient who challenges her authority through card games, a deep-sea fishing trip, and a late-night party, provoking escalating retaliation including electroshock and lobotomy.