Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farin~a, Richard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 039441683X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394416830
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Synopsis
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, encounteringamong other thingsmescaline, 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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- ThriftBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1246745848
- Title
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- Author
- Farin~a, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039441683X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394416830
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
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