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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Paperback - 1996
by Richard Farina; Introduction by Thomas Pynchon
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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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- Title Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- Author Richard Farina; Introduction by Thomas Pynchon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Publication date 1996-05-01
- ISBN 9780140189308 / 0140189300
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.17 x 0.66 in (19.74 x 13.13 x 1.68 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromane, College students - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96164514
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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