Been Down So Long It Looks Like up to Me
Book - 1996
A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960s
Richard 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Richard 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Publisher:
New York : Penguin Books, 1996
ISBN:
9780140189308
0140189300
0140189300
Characteristics:
xiv, 329 p. ; 20 cm
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Add a CommentBaby boomers love to talk about how great the 60s were and, yeah, there was some awesome music, but the books I read set in that decade make it seem kind of annoying. Richard Farina was a half-Cuban, half-Irish writer and singer who married Joan Baez's sister and died in a motorcycle accident. This acclaimed novel gives you a sense of the heady, idealistic atmosphere of the 60s, but I doesn't hold much interest for the younger reader/writer. Introduction by Thomas "V" Pynchon. Also, see the non-fiction "Positively 4th Street."