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Author |
: Richard Farina |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1996-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101549520 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101549521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by : Richard Farina
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author |
: Richard Fariña |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0140189300 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140189308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by : Richard Fariña
The surrealistic adventures of the young anti-hero reflect the author's irreverent view of life, using a 1950s college campus as a microcosm of the world
Author |
: Richard Faria |
Publisher |
: Graymalkin Media |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2019-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1631681990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781631681998 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by : Richard Faria
The classic novel of the 1960s"€"an unerring corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt. Richard Faria 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 wrote, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch." "A marvelous storyteller, Faria is fit to join the company of Kerouac, Kesey, and Pynchon." "€"San Francisco Chronicle
Author |
: David Hajdu |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2011-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429961769 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429961767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Positively 4th Street by : David Hajdu
The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960s When Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle on the side of a road near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was recognized as a genius, a youth idol, and the authentic voice of the counterculture: and Greenwich Village, where he first made his mark as a protest singer with an acid wit and a barbwire throat, was unquestionably the center of youth culture. So embedded are Dylan and the Village in the legend of the Sixties--one of the most powerful legends we have these days--that it is easy to forget how it all came about. In Positively Fourth Street, David Hajdu, whose 1995 biography of jazz composer Billy Strayhorn was the best and most popular music book in many seasons, tells the story of the emergence of folk music from cult practice to popular and enduring art form as the story of a colorful foursome: not only Dylan but his part-time lover Joan Baez - the first voice of the new generation; her sister Mimi - beautiful, haunted, and an artist in her own right; and her husband Richard Farina, a comic novelist (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me) who invented the worldliwise bohemian persona that Dylan adopted--some say stole--and made as his own. The story begins in the plain Baez split-level house in a Boston suburb, moves to the Cambridge folk scene, Cornell University (where Farina ran with Thomas Pynchon), and the University of Minnesota (where Robert Zimmerman christened himself Bob Dylan and swapped his electric guitar for an acoustic and a harmonica rack) before the four protagonists converge in New York. Based on extensive new interviews and full of surprising revelations, Positively Fourth Street is that rare book with a new story to tell about the 1960s. It is, in a sense, a book about the Sixties before they were the Sixties--about how the decade and all that it is now associated with it were created in a fit of collective inspiration, with an energy and creativity that David Hajdu captures on the page as if for the first time.
Author |
: Jim Booth |
Publisher |
: Watchmaker Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0972178600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780972178600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Southern Gentleman by : Jim Booth
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author |
: Richard Fariña |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066058929 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone by : Richard Fariña
Author |
: Laura Nowlin |
Publisher |
: Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402277849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402277849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis If He Had Been with Me by : Laura Nowlin
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Author |
: Richard Farina |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1983-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0147793270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780147793270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Counter Display by : Richard Farina
Richard Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossos 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."
Author |
: Hanya Yanagihara |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2016-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804172707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804172706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Little Life by : Hanya Yanagihara
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author |
: Taylor Jenkins Reid |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2023-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781398516755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1398516759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forever, Interrupted by : Taylor Jenkins Reid
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo "Touching and powerful...Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel." Publishers Weekly Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped. Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met-and who doesn't even know Elsie exists. Interweaving Elsie and Ben's charmed romance with Elsie and Susan's healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there's more than one way to find a happy ending.