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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Ken Kesey
In a psychiatric hospital, Randle McMurphy challenges Nurse Ratched's authority and upends the ward. A novel about institution, control, and rebellion.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0451163966
- ISBN-13
- 9780451163967
- ASIN
- 0451163966
Why was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest challenged?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1975. The novel was removed from school libraries in New York State and Oklahoma, and challenged elsewhere for violence, sexuality, and language.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The novel was removed from school libraries in New York State and Oklahoma, and challenged elsewhere for violence, sexuality, and language.
A history of removals and challenges documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1975. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest challenged?
- The novel was removed from school libraries in New York State and Oklahoma, and challenged elsewhere for violence, sexuality, and language.
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