Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
by Farina, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 329 pages, 8vo. Stated First Printing. Jacket price clipped. Blurb by Thomas Pynchon on inside rear flap. Chalk blue cloth boards with bright green cloth spine, black, yellow and white lettering and arrows, top page edge stained black. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers. DJ in mylar. Spine is very lightly cocked. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..
Synopsis
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. 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." "A marvelous storyteller, Fariña is fit to join the company of Kerouac, Kesey, and Pynchon." — San Francisco Chronicle
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Details
- Bookseller
- Russian Hill Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 063058
- Title
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
- Author
- Farina, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- FARINA PYNCHON
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Russian Hill Bookstore
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About Russian Hill Bookstore
Russian Hill Bookstore, established in 1974, is one of the last family-owned used and new bookstores in San Francisco. We began as Sunset Bookstore in 1974, a small used bookshop servicing the Sunset District west of 19th Avenue, and have been in continual operation for the past 43 years. Over the years Sunset Bookstore has since closed and merged with Russian Hill Bookstore, which has grown to become also the best note card shop in the city, and a favorite place for toys and games for children of all ages.
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