Author: Richard Farina
Publisher: Dell 0514
Year: 1969 Print: 5 Cover Price: $.75
Condition: Book Grades.  Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/Novel/Humor
Pages: 269
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The Classic Novel of the 1960s

Richard Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossos 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 wrote, “comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch.”