num_pages: 352
description: A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960sRichard 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.
language: English
title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
titlecomplete: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
genres: 20th Century, American, Counter Culture, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 3329
publisher: Penguin Classics