City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore - Paperback
by Gioia Woods
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nevada PressISBN-13:9781647792398ISBN-10:1647792398UPC:9781647792398Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary FiguresSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC2YH4HPWE
City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nevada PressISBN-13:9781647792398ISBN-10:1647792398UPC:9781647792398Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary FiguresSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC2YH4HPWE
Gioia Woods is professor of humanities and chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of the Western Writers Series monograph Gary Paul Nabhan, coeditor of Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West, and editor of Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
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