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Fogtown (Advance Reading Copy)
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Fogtown (Advance Reading Copy) Paperback - 2004

by Plate, Peter

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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.
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  • Title Fogtown (Advance Reading Copy)
  • Author Plate, Peter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York: , 2004, New York
  • Date 2004-06-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 32780
  • ISBN 9781583226391 / 1583226397
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.62 x 0.43 in (20.98 x 14.27 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Northern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: San Francisco, California
  • Library of Congress subjects Inner cities, San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003027062
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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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Citations

  • Foreword, 09/01/2004, Page 56
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2004, Page 293
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/24/2004, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 05/24/2004, Page 46

About the author

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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