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Books by Peter Plate
  | | Fogtown(1st Edition) by Peter Plate Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2004 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-639-1, ISBN: 1-58322-639-7 "One foggy day in San Francisco brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyperliterate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armored car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate uses a loving hand to carve his characters out of hallucination, perversity, and tenacity. Plate's noir sensibility gives him special fluency with the weary souls of urban America's down and ..." |
 | | The Angels of Catastrophe(1st Edition) A Novel by Peter Plate Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Seven Stories Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-063-4, ISBN: 1-58322-063-1 "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 Capitán 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 home ..." |
 | | One Foot off the Gutter(Updated) by Peter Plate Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2001 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-259-1, ISBN: 1-58322-259-6 "The time is 1996. Our narrator, Coddy, a policeman, is underpaid, sleep-deprived, and overweight. Coddy’s partner, Bellamy, is homeless, living out of their shared squad car, littering the back seat with his dirty underwear and empty cigarette packs. Free Box and Barbie are squatters who rob Rainbow Health Foods at gunpoint for something to eat. From the junkies openly shooting up on stoops to the homeless men with their fleets of shopp ..." |
 | | Police and Thieves(1st Edition) A Novel by Peter Plate Hardcover, 198 Pages, Published 2003 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-888363-95-1, ISBN: 1-888363-95-9 |
 | | Dirty in Cashmere A Novel by Peter Plate Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-617-0, ISBN: 1-60980-617-4 "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 fro ..." |
 | | Elegy Written on a Crowded Street A Novel by Peter Plate Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-931-6, ISBN: 1-58322-931-0 "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 ..." |
 | | Soon The Rest Will Fall A Novel (Hardback) by Peter Plate Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2006 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-747-3, ISBN: 1-58322-747-4 "Slatts Colhoun and Robert Grogan saw things in San Quentin State Prison that were a far cry from the safe existence of working a nine-to-five job - they witnessed rapes, riots, guards shooting convicts, solitary confinement and no privacy." |
 | | Snitch Factory(1st Edition) by Peter Plate Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2001 by Seven Stories Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-258-4, ISBN: 1-58322-258-8 "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. Char ..." |
 | | Snitch Factory A Novel by Peter Plate Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1996 by Hushion House ISBN-13: 978-1-888277-02-9, ISBN: 1-888277-02-5 |
 | | One Foot Off the Gutter by Peter Plate Paperback, Published 1995 by Incommunicado Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88461-511-8, ISBN: 0-88461-511-1 |
 | | A Kamikaze In Her Eyes by Peter Plate Paperback, 271 Pages, Published 1994 by Pressure Drop Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9627091-4-2, ISBN: 0-9627091-4-X |
 | | Darkness Throws Down the Sun by Peter Plate Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 1991 by Polygon An Imprint Of Birlinn Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-6117-6, ISBN: 0-7486-6117-4 |
 | | With Death Laughing A Novel by Peter Plate 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-926-3, ISBN: 1-60980-926-2 "A novel that is also a psychic history in a time of attrition, With Death Laughing is a utopian crime story where the line between thievery and charity all but disappears." |
 | | Snitch Factory by Peter Plate Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-8443-8, ISBN: 1-4587-8443-6 |
 | | The Case for Socialism(Large Print) Third Edition by Peter Plate, Howard Zinn, Alan Maass Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2013 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-8077-5, ISBN: 1-4587-8077-5 "We live in a world of poverty, war, and environmental devastation. A world where living standards for working people plummet while an elite few enjoy lives of unbelievable wealth and power. Something differentan alternative to capitalismis desperately needed. But what should replace it? This book proposes socialism. A society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustic ..." |
 | | Fogtown a Novel by Peter Plate Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-57622-3, ISBN: 1-299-57622-2 |
 | | Soon the Rest Will Fall A Novel by Peter Plate 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-056-7, ISBN: 1-60980-056-7 "—Pamela Feinsilber, San Francisco Magazine "There's no question that Plate has a sensitive, masterful command of language. His writing is simultaneously direct and lyrical, and he has more unique action verbs at his disposal than you ..." |
 | | Angels of Catastrophe by Peter Plate Paperback, Published 2010 by Readhowyouwant ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-8442-1, ISBN: 1-4587-8442-8 |
 | | One Foot Off the Gutter A Novel by Peter Plate Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 2010 by Readhowyouwant Formato Grande ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-0095-9, ISBN: 1-4596-0095-9 "The time is1996. Our narrator, Coddy, a policeman, is underpaid, sleep-deprived, and overweight. Coddy's partner, Bellamy, is homeless, living out of their shared squad car, littering the back seat with his dirty underwear and empty cigarette packs. Free Box and Barbie are squatters who rob Rainbow Health Foods at gunpoint for something to eat. From the junkies openly shooting up on stoops to the homeless men with their fleets of shoppi ..." |
 | | Snitch Factory A Novel by Peter Plate 113 Pages, Published 2003 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-055-0, ISBN: 1-60980-055-9 "A Novel Peter Plate. Lavoris retrieved the weapon and decocked the hammer ... To the rest of us, he said, "Hey you people, what's the fuss? We've got plenty of drinking to do. ... A beer will do the trick." We got our drinks and waited for the cops ..." |
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