Snitch Factory

Peter Plate

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
06 November 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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. A co-worker is murdered. Charlene's boss and former mentor spends amorous afternoons with her arch-enemy. The custodian burglarizes her desk, then shoots her in the knee after he imagines she's ratted on him. As the anger and chaos at DSS reach epic proportions, we witness the strange heroism of Charlene's coworkers when they foil a hold-up; her boss's real vulnerability after a suicide attempt; and Charlene herself triumphantly winning her personal battle for romance in this true human comedy.

By: Peter Plate
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781583222584
ISBN 10: 1583222588
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 06 November 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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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

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