He was quite lost. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings, to a vagabond life in Parisian cafes, to befriending the greatest counter-cultural writers, the boy has seen it all. This is the story of one man's extraordinary life, and the madness of the century that witnessed it. From Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.