In its unsettling mixture of comic and nightmarish elements Sailor Song is most closely related to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962; see separate entry).
Kesey's experimentation with shifting points of view continues the narrative innovations found in Sometimes a Great Notion.....
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