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This cult novel by Richard Fariña, classmate of Thomas Pynchon, Kirkpatrick Sale and others, includes some scenes inspired by events on the Cornell campus in the 1950s. I bought this weather-beaten copy in college when some friends became obsessed w…

This cult novel by Richard Fariña, classmate of Thomas Pynchon, Kirkpatrick Sale and others, includes some scenes inspired by events on the Cornell campus in the 1950s. I bought this weather-beaten copy in college when some friends became obsessed with Fariña, who died at 29 in a motorcycle accident shortly after its publication in 1966. The style is lyrical stream of consciousness in places: 

This Old Book: 'Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me'

February 20, 2012 by Patrick LaForge
February 20, 2012 /Patrick LaForge
motorcycles, folksingers, Cuba, books, Richard Fariña, Cornell, death, 1960s, protests, novels, This Old Book
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