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- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña. Parts campus novel and travelogue, the book was first published in 1966 and is largely based on Fariña's college experiences and travels.
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Jan 9, 2013 · 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.
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ISBN. 0-14-018930-0. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña. Parts campus novel and travelogue, the book was first published in 1966 and is largely based on Fariña's college experiences and travels. Set variously in an upstate New York college town, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and in the Western United ...
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Jan 13, 2021 · This was the political and emotional background of that long-ago spring term at Cornell—the time and setting of Richard Fariña’s novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Not that this is a typical “college” novel, exactly.
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.
Jan 22, 2021 · No one knows what became of Martin Chavez; we do, however, know what became of Richard Fariña: he was buried in a modest grave at the Monterey City Cemetery in Monterey, California. Emblazoned on...
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Sep 11, 2017 · Reading Time: 2 minutes. The quintessential novel of the 1960s that most people have never heard of, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, is a seminal work of counterculture fiction, and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the Summer of Love.
May 1, 1996 · Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Richard Farina. Penguin, May 1, 1996 - Fiction - 352 pages. A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960s Richard Fariña evokes the Sixties as...
