Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
In this title, Farina 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,...
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In this title, Farina 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140189308 (0140189300)
ASIN: 140189300
Publish date: May 1st 1996
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Culture,
Contemporary,
Counter Culture