Elegy Written on a Crowded Street
A Novel
$30.46
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Welcome to San Francisco- the first fully gentrified city in America.May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore District, also known as the “Harlem of the West,” the neighborhood that the powers-that-be of San Francisco would like more than anything to see disappear. May becomes a target of the police, and of he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583229316 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583229310 |
| Author: | Peter Plate |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Seven Stories Press |
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“[Plate] can write, and he certainly knows his terrain … try to catch him at a spoken word event or reading, where he often recounts his stories from memory. It’s clear they are intertwined with his life.” –San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Peter Plate
Named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004,PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning withBlack 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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