Kesey sometimes a great notion6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The logging union and the town demand vassalage, but Hank refuses, setting up a community struggle with endless comic proliferations. Today, it is concentrated in unforgivable quantity in the person of Hank Stamper - who, with his father, old Henry, and a horde of lesser Stampers, is master of a lumber fief. Instead of diminishing through the generations, the Stamper elan has increased. He confines the book, for all its massive force, to the locale of a small Oregon logging town, Wakontia, and to one family, the Stampers. Kesey, in the fullness of his material, discovers them for us. and the beer commercials, beyond the huge effluvium of the times, exist people who live by the ancient passions, and Mr. “Sometimes a Great Notion,” a big book in every way, captures the tenor of post‐Korea America as nothing I can remember reading.īeyond the P.T.A. Such a beginning was insufficient to prepare us for the power and scope of the author's second novel. After the material was hog‐tied to suit another medium, it was adapted for Broadway as comedy‐melodrama, and received a spotty reception there. The book, which was concerned with grim events in a mental institution, was an original, and, in general, was well reviewed. WITH his first novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” Ken Kesey established himself as fully qualified in the art of fiction. ![]()
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