The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.
Out of the Stamper family\'s rivalries and betrayals, Ken Kesey crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy..
And then there is Leland, Henry\'s bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined.
Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch
Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank\'s exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin.
A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast.
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan