Richard Fariña (1937–1966)
Forfatter af Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
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The Richard Fariña dulcimer book 8 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Fariña, Richard
- Juridisk navn
- Fariña, Richard George
- Fødselsdato
- 1937-03-08
- Dødsdag
- 1966-04-30
- Begravelsessted
- Monterey City Cemetery, Monterey, California, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Carmel, California, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Carmel, California, USA - Uddannelse
- Cornell University
- Erhverv
- singer
songwriter
novelist - Relationer
- Fariña, Mimi (spouse)
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In addition to being autobiographical, Been Down So Long is a tribute to the culture of the late 1950s. Drugs, relationships, music, college, sex, religion, all show up and parade past the reader waving their colors of glory. Amidst the electric blue imagery seethes black comedy. There is a jaunty style of half lying that simply cannot be believed. Buzzy. I am sure with all the farmland there are plenty of rainbows and you should not forget about the umbro horrors rocks in the roots that fall down like marshmallows in cloudlike wisps. Gnossos, like Farina, was the king of tall tales, as he says "ovarian doom waiting to be fertilized" (p 12).… (mere)