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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
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Author:
Farina, Richard
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Pynchon, Thomas
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Penguin Publishing Group 1996
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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. 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.
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Street Date:
05/01/1996
Language:
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ISBN:
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Richard Farina. (1996). Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Penguin Publishing Group.

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Richard Farina. 1996. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Penguin Publishing Group.

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Richard Farina, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Penguin Publishing Group, 1996.

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Richard Farina. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Penguin Publishing Group, 1996.

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From the Trade Paperback edition.
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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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