Elegy Written on a Crowded Street: A Novel - Peter Plate

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 disappear. May becomes a target of the police, and of her own shadowed past among the people of Fillmore—strippers, alcoholic policemen, psychic gunshot victims, fugitives—as she walks the narrowest tightrope on the West Coast: the line of personal conscience that separates justice from authority.By turns lyrical, incisive, hilarious, and bittersweet, Peter Plate's Elegy Written On A Crowded Street explores the human cost of the twenty-first century American city with a unique honesty, beauty, and moral power.

Author: Plate, Peter
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Elegy Written on a Crowded Street: A Novel
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2011-01-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781583229316
Category: Fiction : Literary
Category: Fiction : Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
Category: Fiction : Urban Life