| Elegy Written on a Crowded Street Contributor(s): Plate, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583229310 ISBN-13: 9781583229316 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010033369 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |