Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farina, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8375
- Title
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- Author
- Farina, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Campus Novel, Counterculture, Drugs, Hippies, Books to Film, College, Frat
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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