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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

by Richard Fariña

A picaresque odyssey following Gnossos Pappadopoulis through 1950s counterculture, from the American West to revolutionary Cuba to an upstate New York campus. Fariña captures the anarchic spirit of pre-hippie bohemia with wit, absurdity, and a hero perpetually in motion. A cult classic that crystallizes the rebellious energy of a generation on the brink.

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