CREEMEDIA
Ken Kesey's last novel, Sometimes A Great Notion, came Out over 22 years ago. Previously, he had written that classic of the individual at war with a spirit-crushing establishment, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (a great book to read in school when you've still got enough spirit to respond).
CREEMEDIA
THE ELECTRIC BUTTERMILK ACID TEST
DEMON BOX by Ken Kesey (Viking)
by Richard C. Walls
Ken Kesey's last novel, Sometimes A Great Notion, came Out over 22 years ago. Previously, he had written that classic of the individual at war with a spirit-crushing establishment, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (a great book to read in school when you've still got enough spirit to respond). Since Notion, Kesey's main claim to our attention has been as a character in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. This chronicle of the Merry Pranksters followed Kesey and his pals and their DayGlo bus on their crosscountry search for the eternal now. Not that they found it, or anything else, but with Kesey it's the quest that counts,