Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering—among other things—mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me , as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch." "A marvelous storyteller, Fariña is fit to join the company of Kerouac, Kesey, and Pynchon." — San Francisco Chronicle

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Bookseller: Friends Book Store (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 251097
Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Author: Richard Farina
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0140065369
ISBN 13: 9780140065367
Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
Place of Publication: Ny
This edition first published: 1983-02-24
Pages: 329
Bookseller catalogs: Warehouse - Specials;

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Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...