Elegy Written on a Crowded Street: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781609802073
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781583229316
- Publisher:
- Seven Stories Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Plate
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.