BOOKS: WIZARD WHEEZE Ken Kesey - great American novelist, acid advocate, hippie andMerry Prankster - is coming to London. What's in store from the Guru Gung Ho?

The Independent - London | August 9, 1998| | Copyright

DRIVING towards the Oregon farm where Ken Kesey is celebrating the 4th of July, I've been told to expect a control freak, a benign fascist. The warnings are insistent, but the facts are scant. The man I'm about to meet has been little more than a rumour for 30 years. The only way of guessing what he'll be like is to review his legend.

Born in 1935, he was taken hunting and fishing in the Oregon wilds by his father almost as soon as he could walk. He was a star high- school athlete, a rugged all-American. But his debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), showed that wasn't all he ...

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