Sometimes a Great Notion

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Sometimes a Great Notion is a 1964 novel by Ken Kesey that portrays the defiant Stamper logging family in rural Oregon and is widely regarded as one of his major works of American literature.

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instanceOf film
novel
adaptedAs Sometimes a Great Notion (film) NERFINISHED
author Ken Kesey NERFINISHED
basedOn Sometimes a Great Notion NERFINISHED
considered classic of American literature
major work of Ken Kesey
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts logging family
logging industry
small-town life in Oregon
director Paul Newman NERFINISHED
genre American literature
fiction
literary fiction
hasISBN 0140045295
hasPageCount ~600
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacters Hank Stamper NERFINISHED
Leland Stamper NERFINISHED
Stamper family NERFINISHED
Viv Stamper NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativeStyle multiple narrators
shifting points of view
narrativeTechnique nonlinear narrative
stream of consciousness
originalLanguage English
precededBy One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1964
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
releaseYear 1971
settingEnvironment rural area
settingLocation Oregon NERFINISHED
Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED
theme American frontier myth
defiance
environment and nature
family conflict
individualism
labor disputes
loyalty
masculinity
union versus independent labor
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century
titleOrigin line from the song "Goodnight, Irene"

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