num_pages: 329
description: Richard Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossos Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch."
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: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, The United States Of America, Counter Culture, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 3329
publisher: Viking Pr