{"product_id":"city-lights-1","title":"City Lights","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 \u003ci\u003ePocket Poets\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55761624465752,"sku":"9781647792398","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781647792398.jpg?v=1779429651","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/city-lights-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}