Peter Plate Books
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"Here are three long stories whose themes link previously obscure moments in America's radical past with the narrator's frustrations with daily life in San Francisco. Plate resurrects the lives of...
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Angels of Catastrophe
By Peter Plate
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 w...
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Snitch Factory
By Peter Plate
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...
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One Foot Off the Gutter
By Peter Plate
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 ba...
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Dirty in Cashmere
By Peter Plate
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...
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Police and Thieves
By Peter Plate
The narrator of Police and Thieves, Doojie, is a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat with his two partners in crime. They sell dope of questionable quality at reasonable pri...
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Snitch Factory
By Peter Plate
The media calls it the most unpopular topic in America today: welfare. Every other person in San Francisco is on the dole. Pregnant teenage welfare mothers in orange nylon vests sweep the streets i...
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