{"product_id":"city-lights-gioia-woods-9781647792398","title":"City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore","description":"On a San Francisco street corner in 1953, aspiring painter and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shook hands with sociology instructor and magazine editor Peter Martin. Their handshake sealed Ferlinghetti's five-hundred-dollar investment in a small retail space above a North Beach flower shop that would become City Lights Bookstore and Press. Since the mid-twentieth century, the bookstore and its press have continued to shape the way literature is produced and consumed. As the first-ever all-paperback bookstore in the nation, sponsor of the Beat Movement and the San Francisco Renaissance, home of the Pocket Poets series, torchbearer for free speech movements, and promoter of global comparative literature and human rights, City Lights has continuously been at the avant-garde of literary experimentation and cultural revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCity Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore \u003c\/i\u003eis the seminal story of the bookstore, its press, and the inimitable Ferlinghetti. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gioia Woods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647792398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647792398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Gioia Woods","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520569360639,"sku":"9781647792398","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_307ae178-11ed-4424-9953-be3ea8193a6e.jpg?v=1762885872","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/city-lights-gioia-woods-9781647792398","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}