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Sometimes a Great notion is a book about about the Stamper family. A tough crew who keeps getting pushed west by the youngest Stamper's whim after looking out the window. Finally they can not go any further west than a raging river on Oregon coast.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Kesey
- First published
- August 29, 2006
- Pages
- 628
- Publisher
- Magnum Books, Eksmo, Amfora
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Polish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785942783068
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KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow.
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