Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me - Hardcover

Farina, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039441683X ISBN 13: 9780394416830

Publisher: Random House, 1966

Synopsis

First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Eric Von Schmidt. description. Dust jacket not price clipped, $5.95. First edition, first printing, stated. Farina was married to Mimi Baez, Joan's sister. His first & only book. He was killed in a motorcycle accident two days after the book was published. Blurb on the front flap from Thomas Pynchon who was his classmate at Cornell.

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Review

This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book.

About the Author

Richard Fariña was killed in a motorcycle accident in Carmel, California, on April 30, 1966-two days after the publication of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. A posthumous collection of his writings, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, was published in 1969.

Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York, in 1937. He is the author of The Crying of Lot 49, V., Vineland, Slow Learner, and Mason & Dixon, among other novels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039441683X
• ISBN 13: 9780394416830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 329