{"product_id":"2940152474800","title":"A Great Place to Drink","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Great Place to Drink takes us into a wine-infused hotel-bar at the outer edges of early 1960s North Beach, San Francisco. It’s the home we didn’t expect to find and the authenticity we didn’t know we were seeking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Duncan and, later, Carolyn wander into the San Giovanni hotel-bar with its dim lighting, cheap drinks, characters drifting in and out, and with Ray Charles on the jukebox, they feel they have arrived home - a place both comfortable and anonymous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn real life the San Giovanni was the San Gottardo, a small Swiss-Italian hotel and bar, 217 Columbus Avenue, home to poets, transients, day dreamers, night dreamers, out-of-luckers, musicians, painters, immigrants, people in between, people scratching a living, retirees, and escapees from suburbia: drinkers and drunks, one and all. From out of the past, they live once again in this novel of the early 1960s as told by one who was there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nany Robbin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165137944816,"sku":"2940152474800","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152474800_p0.jpg?v=1764021546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152474800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}