Dirty in Cashmere

A Novel

Peter Plate

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
26 January 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

"Set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, with nuclear contamination from Japan looming at California's shores, this slim noir tale takes us into the mind of a nineteen-year-old self-described oracle whose own future is the only one he can't predict.

Ricky Bellamy is shot in the head by a vigilante at the corner of Geneva and Mission in San Francisco. He's declared brain-dead and hooked up to life support, but ten months later he emerges from his coma. The bullet stays lodged in his head-inoperable, the doctors say-but with it comes what Ricky calls ""visions, a third eye.""

Dirty in Cashmere follows Ricky through the recent past of San Francisco, a city dealing with the fall-out from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, after which massive contamination spread across the Pacific Ocean to California. He's set adrift in a world in which Life-the street name of an experimental radiation vaccine-is the currency by which both criminal enterprises and survival are won. As he squats in abandoned houses and brands himself as an ""oracle"" who can see the future, Ricky wonders whether there isn't a bigger picture out there, one that maybe he can't focus on or perhaps one that someone's hiding from him. And as his skills as an oracle are called upon by more powerful forces, it becomes clear that the one thing Ricky wants most to predict is the city's future-the mirror of his own destiny."

By: Peter Plate
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9781609806170
ISBN 10: 1609806174
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 26 January 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"PETER PLATEtaught himself to write fiction while squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many books, including his eight neo-noir ""psychic histories"" of San Francisco."

Reviews for Dirty in Cashmere: A Novel

With little fanfare or support, against the real life backdrop of police sweeps of the homeless and the start of the dot-com boom, Plate has produced a shelf of books that represent a lonely, yet noble and deeply radical literary effort to write noir crime fiction in which the criminals, not the cops, are the protagonists. Taken as a whole, they offer a compelling and defiant portrait of the psychic toll the disappearance of loved people, places, and opportunity from the city has taken on those left behind. -San Francisco Bay Guardian I found a certain sweetness to the telling of Peter Plate's walk on the San Francisco wild side. -Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered Through vivid detailing of both his characters and the city of San Francisco, Plate brings conflict to life with skillful precision and undeniable poignancy. -Rain Taxi Plate creates a poetry of the street. -The Willamette Week