{"product_id":"2940169051735","title":"Ajax Penumbra 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Robin Sloan, author of \u003ci\u003eMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Franciscoamp;mdash;and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and an unprecedented subway tunnel is being built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book-the single surviving copy of the\u003ci\u003e Techne Tycheon\u003c\/i\u003e, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100346859760,"sku":"2940169051735","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169051735_p0.jpg?v=1763670305","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169051735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}