A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960s Richard Fari???a 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, ...
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A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960s Richard Fari???a 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.
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Good. Size: 1x1x1; 1983 Penguin paperback-1st THUS 1st printing-intro by Pynchon-some wear to cover-tanning and ink mark to closed page edge-owner's name inside front cover-otherwise binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards slightly bowed, betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Gift inscription on first leaf; notation on half-title page; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good Only. Octavo. Green cloth binding over blue-gray boards with black, yellow and white arrow design to front. Rubbing soiling, some spotting to extremities. Spine lean. Reading copy of this classic mid-sixties narrative of late Beat-ish artistic culture. Farina was a handsome folksinger-writer of Cuban-Irish descent, who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. Farina was a handsome Cuban-Irish folksinger-writer who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. At age 29, Farnia tragically died in a motorcycle accident two days after his book was published. At Cornell, he became close friends with Thomas Pynchon, David Shetzline and Peter Yarrow (later of Peter Paul and Mary fame). "...Pynchon, who later dedicated his book Gravity's Rainbow (1973) to Fariña, described Fariña's novel as 'coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch...hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time. ' "