![]() ![]() The union pressure intensifies and then everything starts to go wrong for Hank, not least of which is his half-brother’s seduction of his, Hank’s, wife. Leland does come back, not least to get his revenge on Hank. However, there is a union strike and Hank needs help so he sends for Leland, whose mother has just killed herself, while he is going through a bad time with drugs and a failed suicide attempt. Hank has a contract to provide logs and he is running a non-union business. ![]() Leland and his mother later leave for New York and never return. When he is sixteen, Hank is seduced by his stepmother and young Leland sees the act and is traumatised by it, hating his half-brother. The second, Leland, is the son of Henry’s second wife, a much younger woman, from a wealthy Eastern family. The first, Hank, grows up to be as stubborn as his father. Henry Stamper has been struggling to make a living and has been struggling alone, refusing help from the community and refusing to join the local co-op. It is set in the fictional town of Wakonda in the Oregon logging area. ![]() Despite having the same basic theme – the struggle of the individual against the system – it is (deliberately) far more complex than One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey’s second novel has not been nearly a successful as his first. ![]() Home » USA » Ken Kesey » Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion ![]()
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