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Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of post-Korea America as nothing I can . Irving Scott, Los Angeles Times. Sometimes a great notion. KEN KESEY was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon.

Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading. He graduated from the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Scowcroft, and Frank O'Connor.

Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut and procure trees for a local mill in opposition to striking, unionized workers. Kesey took the title from the song "Goodnight, Irene", popularized by Lead Belly.

Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of the post-Korea America as nothing I. .Very interesting treatise and glimpse into what Kesey was up to when he wrote "Sometimes a Great Notion" and prior to the bus and the electric kool-aid acid tests.

Sometimes a Great Notion, a big book in every way, captures the tenor of the post-Korea America as nothing I can remember reading. A tremendous achievement. It's All a Kind of Magic" ends with someone saying (or words to this effect): "Hey, let's get a bus!"

Sometimes a Great Notion book. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

Sometimes a Great Notion book. The magnificent second novel from the legendary author.

Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964) has always played a second novel fiddle to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" .

Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964) has always played a second novel fiddle to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962), especially after the Academy Award-winning film version with Jack Nicholson ratcheted its way into the national cerebrum. Writer Ken Kesey poses with "Newt the Nut Catcher hood ornament on his second bus called Further at his farm near Pleasant Hill, Ore. Photo: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/2000.

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century. This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers.

Ken Kesey was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964.

Ken Kesey was born in 1935 and grew up in Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Scowcroft, and Frank O' Connor. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his first novel, was published in 1962. His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, followed in 1964. His other books include Kesey's Garage Sale, Demon Box, Caverns (with O. U. Levon), The Further Inquiry, Sailor Song, and Last Go Round (with Ken Babbs)

come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River. The first little washes flashing like thick rushing winds through sheep sorrel and clover, ghost. fern and nettle, sheering, cutting

come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River. fern and nettle, sheering, cutting. Then, through bear-berry and salmonberry, blueberry and blackberry, the branches crashing into creeks, into streams. Finally, in the foothills, through tamarack and sugar pine, shittim bark and silver spruce-and the green and blue mosaic of Douglas fir-the actual river falls five hundred feet.

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.