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Scenes are for making.

From mesacaline trips to campus riots, from sacrilegious rites to the New Left, from amorous conquest to amorous conquest...Gnossos Pappadopoulis makes them all.

Who's gnossos?

He's a shaggy-haired, pot-puffing product of the Great Society, an amoral collegiate hipster who loathes convention, lusts for kicks and is determined, above all else, never to lose his cool. He's the guy who has been down so long it looks like up.

Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 - April 30, 1966) was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties and the budding folk rock scene of the same era.

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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.

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  • PublisherDell Books
  • Publication date1975
  • ISBN 10 0440105145
  • ISBN 13 9780440105145
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number5
  • Number of pages269
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