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Peter Plate
PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir "psychic histories" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.
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Elegy Written on a Crowded Street due out in November 2010 It's not easy to be a bail bondsman in San Francisco, especially if you have a conscience. |
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Soon the Rest Will Fall A Novel 2006 Edition Chester Himes meets Isaac Babel in a noir Christmas tale. |
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Fogtown A Novel 2004 Edition "[Plate's] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squad car, and God doesn't deign to put in an appearance." --San Francisco Chronicle |
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Snitch Factory 2001 Edition Amid a background of bank robberies and fatal gunshot wounds, the real drama here is bureaucratic and human. |
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One Foot off the Gutter 2001 Edition The time is 1996. Our narrator, Coddy, a policeman, is underpaid, sleep-deprived, and overweight. Peter Plate’s Mission District is “a catechism in destruction", a story about inner-city, west coast gentrification at the end of the 20th century. |
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Angels of Catastrophe 2001 Edition The Angels of Catastrophe is the fourth and crowning work in Peter Plate's Mission Quartet, set in San Francisco's Mission District. |
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Police and Thieves 1999 Edition Plate's most ambitious novel to date. Doojie, a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat, witnesses a renegade cop shoot an unarmed Mexican, and soon he and his buddies are running for their lives. |
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