Been Down So Long It looks Like Up to Me (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Farina, Richard; Pynchon, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140189300 ISBN 13: 9780140189308

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

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, encountering-among other things-mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Fariña was killed in a motorcycle accident in Carmel, California, on April 30, 1966-two days after the publication of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. A posthumous collection of his writings, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, was published in 1969.

Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York, in 1937. He is the author of The Crying of Lot 49, V., Vineland, Slow Learner, and Mason & Dixon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140189300
• ISBN 13: 9780140189308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352