The Angels Of Catastrophe

Peter Plate

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery

A cop is gunned down and unless Ricky Durrutti, a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet, can figure out who the real shooter is, he's a dead man. From Hunt's Donuts, opposite where the killing took place, to his room in the El Capitan Hotel, from the blue grass and steel Federal Building off Golden Gate Avenue to the Ritmo Latino record store, and from the Roxie Cinema on 16th Street to the Ramshackle Victorian homes of Treat Street where Lonely Boy lives--the chase is on. Salvadoreno gangs and Mexicans, cops and Jewish gangsters, drag queens and heroin addicts, speed freaks and low rent hookers, low-lives rising rising to the challenge of making sense of a murder. Out of the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski, here is the twenty-first century world of Peter Plate.

By: Peter Plate
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 305g
ISBN: 9781583220634
ISBN 10: 1583220631
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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Plate has written about this slice of life before and he continues to do so with tender yet unflinching insight. - Publishers Weekly A worthy addition to Plate's brilliant body of work - Time Out New York

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