Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics)

A witty psychedelic and telling novel of the 1960s 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. 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.