Richard Faria evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossos Pap- padopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering-among other things-mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, “comes on like the Hal- lelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch.”