One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was written in 1959 and published in 1962. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman in 1963, as well as a 1975 film, which won five Academy Awards.
Time Magazine included the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005" list.
The story One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, narrated by the gigantic but docile half-Native American inmate "Chief" Bromden focuses on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve out his sentence in the hospital. With little medical oversight, the hospital ward is run by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, her three black day-shift orderlies, and her assistant doctors.
McMurphy constantly antagonizes Nurse Ratched and upsets the routines, leading to constant power struggles between the inmate and the nurse. He runs a card table, captains the ward's basketball team, comments on Nurse Ratched's figure, incites the other patients on the ward to conduct a vote on watching the World Series on television, and organizes a supervised deep sea fishing trip. His reaction after failing to lift a heavy shower room control panel – "But at least I tried." – gives the men incentive to stand up for themselves instead of allowing Nurse Ratched to take control... (Summary by Wikipedia)