Sailor Song Summary / Study Guide

Sailor Song | Characters

In Sailor Song, his most baroque novel, Ken Kesey presents his readers with a cast of eccentrics. These include Emil Greer, a mottled complected Rastafarian who is the product of a sexual liaison between an East Asian girl and a machinist's mate descended from the Vikings; the liquor-loving, gourmet-cooking old salt Mike Carmody; Louise (Lulu) Loop, a bimbo with streaked makeup and butterfly tattoos; Nicholas Levertov, the diabolical albino offspring of a forced incestuous relationship between his mother and his grandfather; Reverend Thaddeus Greener, a cobra-eyed cult leader who...

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