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Originally published in 1977 by the Northwest Review, KESEY is a collection of the writer's original drafts, stream-of-consciousness outlines, poems, drawings and excerpts from works including Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The result is a fascinating glimpse into an outrageously creative mind, illustrating the development of Kesey's writing style, approach and voice. Facsimile reproductions of handwritten notes and sketches, along with Kesey's family photographs, appear throughout the book, lending it an intimacy that is all the more poignant given the author's untimely death in November 2001.
This collection of sketches and early drafts of Ken Kesey’s monumental novel Sometimes a Great Notion is one of the most important works I ever read. I have written novels and hope to write more, and I probably would not have had the courage to even try to write if I had never read this book. I have a copy and hold on to it. It is a very intimate look at a great writer at his weakest moment, when the story is just just coming to his imagination. It shows the raw, unfinished “notions” of the story before it came to be. From reading this, I saw that Kesey’s creative process was “mortal” and that this led to an immortal result. It gave me the courage to keep writing.
