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Encyclopedia > Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion is a 1964 novel by Ken Kesey. Image File history File links Getatnotion. ... Image File history File links Getatnotion. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a cultural figure whom some consider a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ...

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The plot centers on the Stamper family, a hard-headed logging clan in the fictional town of Wakonda, Oregon. When the rest of the town goes on strike, the Stampers continue logging, creating strife with the local union and eventually within the family. It is widely considered among the masterpieces of Western American literature. Loggers on break, c. ... Official language(s) None Capital Largest city Salem Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq. ...


Movie

The novel was rich is gay adapted into a 1971 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda and featuring Richard Jaeckel in his Oscar nominated role. The film was released in the UK under the title Never Give an Inch. Image File history File links Sometimesposter. ... Image File history File links Sometimesposter. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... Fonda in the 1957 classic, 12 Angry Men. ... Richard Jaeckel Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ...


Trivia

It is the favorite novel of Howard Dean. [1] Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. ...


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Ken Kesey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (885 words)
Kesey believed that these patients were not insane, but that society had pushed them out because they did not fit the conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave.
When the publication of his second novel Sometimes a Great Notion in 1964 required his presence in New York, Kesey, Neal Cassady, and others in a group of friends they called the "Merry Pranksters" took a cross-country trip in a school bus nicknamed Furthur.
Sometimes a Great Notion was made into a 1971 film starring Paul Newman and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
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