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."
title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
titlecomplete: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Humor, 20th Century, Novels, Counter Culture, The United States Of America, American, Classics
ratings_count: 3330
publisher: Random House