Fogtown (Advance Reading Copy)
by Plate, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1583226397
- ISBN 13
- 9781583226391
- Seller
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About This Item
Seven Stories Press, New York: , 2004. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, near fine. Uncorrected galley proof for review. 161, At sunrise on the last day of summer an armored car exits the freeway near the police station and rumbles down Market Street toward the Embarcadero. Mama Celeste and other retirees waiting for the Social Security office to open watch as a speeding Ford Taurus inexplicably collides with the truck. Bills scatter everywhere. Mama Celeste is convinced she's having a vision: Judgment Day has finally come. She grabs a bag full of money and heads back to the Allen Hotel. Here in Peter Plate's telling, the meanness and brutal honesty of the lives of the Allen Hotel residents worsen to the point where the only reasonable chance for escape is through an act of God.
Synopsis
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 with Black 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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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32780
- Title
- Fogtown (Advance Reading Copy)
- Author
- Plate, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1583226397
- ISBN 13
- 9781583226391
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press, New York: , 2004
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2004-06-01
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