Elegy Written on a Crowded Street

Peter Plate

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English

Seven Stories Press,U.S.
26 October 2010

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

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 her own shadowed past among the people of Fillmore-strippers, alcoholic policemen, psychic gunshot victims, fugitives-as she walks the narrowest tightrope on the West Coast- the line of personal conscience that separates justice from authority. By turns lyrical, incisive, hilarious, and bittersweet, Peter Plate's Elegy Written On A Crowded Street explores the human cost of the twenty-first century American city with a unique honesty, beauty, and moral power.

By: Peter Plate
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9781583229316
ISBN 10: 1583229310
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 26 October 2010
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.

Reviews for Elegy Written on a Crowded Street

“[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