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Based largely on Farinã's college experiences and travels, the novel is a comic picaresque story of Gnossos Pappadopoulis that takes place in the American West, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and at an upstate New York university.
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Cool, comic, spare and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Fariña
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 329
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Viking Press, Dell
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670154760
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