Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Neil Stuart |
| Cover photo | David Gahr |
| Introduction by | Thomas Pynchon |
| Copyright Holder | Richard Fariña |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1966 |
| This Edition Published | 1983 |
| Pages / Font | 329 pages |
| ISBN | 0 14 00.6536 9 |
| Price | 14.99 Canada |
| Price | 11.95 US |
| Chapters | Gnossos Finds A Home. Fitzgore And Heffalump See A Ghost. A Plan For Sustenance Is Conceived. A Checkout Woman Meets The King Of Mexico. The Fraternity Smoker Type Thing. The Paregoric Pall Mall. The Saga Of The Enema Bag Begins. Pamela Watson-May: Hooray And Up She Rises. Good Morning, Blues. Heffalump As Mother. Monsignor Putti. A First Encounter With The Dead Of Men. Blacknesse And The Dark Goddess. Gnossos Tells An Antecedent Tale. A Curry Dinner Of Sorts. Mrs. Blacknesse In A Sari Procures A Pair Of Tweezers For Feeding A Spider To A Carnivorous Plant. Nostalgia And Ferment At Guido's Grill (Or) The Plot Thickens. A Second Encounter With The Dean Of Men. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy? Two Curious Strangers, The Bullwhip, And The Artificial Eye. A Most Peculiar Proposition. L'Hopital's Rule And The Homicidal Return Of Watson-May. Apotheosis In The Rucksack. Morning Martinis And Strontium 90: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. The Beagle And The Bunny-Rabbit (An Interlocking Epiphany). The Happy Little Grüns, The Greenhouse, And The Pot Of Pot. The Great Rhetorical Question. Heffalump As Insightful Mother. A Credo? Zombis, Vampires, And The Girl In The Green Knee-Socks. Love Among The Black Elks. Gnossos Tells Another Tale. Mojo And The Masochistic Microbus. The Voice Of The Turtle, Gnossos As Prometheus. The Object Found Dwelling In The Commode. A Dream Before Dinner. The Virgins Two: A Confrontation. A Paradox In Indelible Ink. Oeuf. The Plot Persists In Thickening. Yea, Hooray, The Happy Couple. Madness Through Pragmatic Method. Blacknesse, Birds, And Bees. Midshipman Fitzgore On The Bathroom Floor. The Epiphanal Defloration. David Grün Explains The Third Dimension. Gnossos Becomes Further Involved. A Theory Of Cosmic Origin, Differing Points Of View, And An Undesired Guest. The Bower Of Innocence Lost. Beth Blacknesse And A Contradiction In Terms. Seeds Of Doubt Are Sewn. America On Wheels, Emporia, A Rendezvous With Da Capo, Social Disease, And Another Country. With Pappadopoulis At The Front. Innocence Regained. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven. The Reclining Buddha. Irma Tells All. In The Tumult And The Shouting, Gnossos Makes A Deal. A Free Ride For Kristin. The Bearer Of Bad News. |
| Notes | In an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt, Richard Fariña evokes the 1960s as surely as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the 1920s. A landlocked, college-age hipster called Gnossos Pappadopoulis weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, demonology, hunting, truth, smuggling, falsehood, gluttony, prayer, science, fetishes, and occasional art. This is a classic novel of an explosive, expansive decade, a book that resonates as social history, sparkles with novelistic inventiveness, and embodies the attitudes of an entire generation. |
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