Police And Thieves
A Novel
$26.19
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Peter Plate honed his craft while living in abandoned buildings and reciting his novels from memory at San Francisco clubs and cafes. His territory is the seedy Mission District; his protagonists are petty crooks, corrupt cops, and down-and-outers; his literary forebears are Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs. Plate’s most ambitious novel to date, Police and Thieves is the breakout book his readers have been waiting for. The narrator, 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 prices. But when one night Doojie sees a renegade cop shoot an unarmed Mexican, he knows that things are about to change. Soon he and his buddies are running for their lives. Fast, ferocious, gritty, and bleak, Police and Thieves is contemporary noir at its best.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583224823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583224823 |
| Author: | Peter Plate |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 141mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“An exciting crime novel that doesn’t skimp on introspection.” - Time Out New York “…one of the most intriguing novelists writing now.” - Review of Contemporary Fiction “Plate reveals a brutal barbarous society in which there is no honesty among thieves and law enforces… This is a powerful, deeply felt book.” - The Saturday Times “Plate’s sixth novel in the past decade and probably his best. His San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the Devil rides in a squad car, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.” - The San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Plate
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 withBlack 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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