O. U. Levon, Author, Ken Kesey, Author, Robert Blucher, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-012208-4
Eccentric characters and entertaining incidents boost the pace of this novel but cannot camouflage the strain imposed by its author's ``split personality.'' Levon (``novel'' spelled backwards) is the collective voice of 13 writing students and their
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Ken Kesey, Author Penguin Books $17 (544p) ISBN 978-0-14-013997-6
Kesey's latest cosmic adventure, set in 21st-century Alaska, finds aging hippies hiding out in a fishing village that is invaded by a film crew. Author tour. (July)
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Ken Kesey, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80912-7
The central theme running through this collection of stories (many of which seem to be primarily nonfiction with elements of fiction thrown in) by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the struggle to come to terms with the legacy of the...
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Ken Kesey, Author Penguin Books $79.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-778155-0
In these autobiographical short stories, Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest seems to come to terms with the legacy of the 1960s. PW recommended the collection for its ""distinctive gift with language and tough sense of humor.'' (August)
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Ken Kesey, Author Viking Books $13.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-83521-8
Kesey ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ; Sometimes a Great Notion ) sets his latest grand, cosmic adventure early in the 21st century, complete with celefones, cardkeys, Mylar pumpsuits and scoot, the artificial stimulant of choice. Ike Sallas, ``me
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Ken Kesey, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-83916-2
Eemook, the tribe's crippled spoonmaker, has secretly carved a magnificent spoon-handle, which he shows to his friend Princess Shoola. In a mock fight over the object, the pair angers the spirits of the deep. Soon the Lion of the Sea, disguised as a
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Ken Kesey, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-14-054950-8
Discussing this folktale from the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, PW said, ``Employing evocative images and clever phrases, Kesey demonstrates his customarily keen sense for language.'' All ages. (Apr.)
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Ken Kesey, Author, Ken Babbs, With Penguin Books $16 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-017667-4
Based on a childhood campfire tale, Kesey and Babbs attempt to recreate the Old West in their story of a black cowboy, a Nez Perce Indian and a young white boy who vie for the first world title of broncbuster. (July)
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Ken Kesey, Author, Ken Babbs, With Viking Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-84883-6
The year is 1911, the occasion is the Pendleton, Oregon, Round-Up, and the cast of characters in Kesey's weak new novel (after Sailor Song ) mixes historical and imagined personages in a manner less reminiscent of E. L. Doctorow than of Jack Higgins.
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Ken Kesey, Author, Ed McClanahan, Introduction by . Viking Studio $34.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-670-87693-8
Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
and the leader of the Merry Pranksters, Kesey was a seminal '60s anti-authority figure—with some consequences via The Man. His lushly illustrated account of time in prison was begun in 1968,...
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Ken Kesey, Author, R. Haynes, Editor, Barry Moser, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-81136-6
Little Tricker must think quickly when the double-hungry bear ``comestet kabooming through the Bottom like a freight druvstet by the Devil himself, or at least his next hottest hollerer''--and indeed he does, concocting a scheme that not only...
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Ken Kesey, Author, Ron Bevirt, Photographer Viking Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83174-6
Kesey gained notoriety in 1964 when he and his Merry Pranksters converted a school bus into a psychedelic caravan with Neal Cassady at the wheel--a cross-country safari chronicled in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This look back at that...
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