Snitch Factory
A Novel
$29.77
- Paperback
180 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Amid a background of bank robberies and fatal gunshot wounds, the real drama here is bureaucratic and human. In her response to the adversity all around her, Peter Plate’s Charlene Hassler, a social worker at the huge, anthill-like Department of Social Services complex on San Francisco’s Otis Street, is a literary tour de force. Straight out of Dante’s Inferno, Plate’s DSS is an eternal holding pen of unfulfilled needs and desires. Charlene is under investigation, and snitches are everywhere.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583222584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583222588 |
| Author: | Peter Plate |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 180 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Mission quartet |
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“Plate describes San Francisco with the careful eyes of an insider and without judgment. Peter Plate is one of the most intriguing novelists writing now.” -Review of Contemporary Fiction
“Plate describes San Francisco with the careful eyes of an insider and without judgment. Peter Plate is one of the most intriguing novelists writing now.” –Review of Contemporary Fiction
About The Author
Peter Plate
Peter Plate taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent living in abandoned buildings. He is the author of six previous novels, including Black Wheel of Anger, Darkness Throws Down the Sun, and the critically acclaimed, Police and Thieves. He lives in San Francisco
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