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Conversations with Ken Kesey (Paperback)
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Conversations with Ken Kesey (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known
fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial
sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and
ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books,
including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books,
appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best
known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of
the West Coast LSD movement that sparked "The Sixties," as
iconically recounted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric KoolAid Acid Test.
In the introduction to "An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey," Paul
Krassner writes, "For a man who says he doesn't like to do
interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them." What's most
surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between
disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could
possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of
attention. Though after his two great triumphs writing played a
lesser role in Kesey's life, his interviews reveal a thoughtful and
generous artist and citizen, who sometimes regrets the books that
were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews
trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and
tragedy--the death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered
his life. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in
American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom
exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.
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