Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Set in the late 1950s, this novel follows Gnossos Pappadopoulis, a world-weary college student returning to campus after a journey across the United States. Through a series of picaresque and psychedelic adventures, Fariña explores themes of youthful disillusionment and the pursuit of truth within a shifting social landscape. The narrative captures the pivotal transition from the Beat Generation to the 1960s counterculture.