Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbedding routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electro-shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy-the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devlish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eye of Cheif Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understand McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey’s extraordinary first novel is an exubrent, ribald and devastatingly honest potrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

I don’t know if the book you’re talking about is by Ken Kesey, but here’s the back cover for it. I had to type all of this lol. Took me a long time. Sorry for the wait.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel (italicized–>)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest(/italicized) has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randal Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Cheif Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.

This edition includes a new foreword by Kesey, a new text introduction by Robert Faggen, and line drawings the author made when writing the book, many never before published.

“A glittering parable of good and evil.” -The New York Times Book Review

“A roar of protest against middlebrow society’s Rules and the Rulers who enforce them.” -Time