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Soon the Rest Will Fall

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

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Paperback $13.95

Jul 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781583228395

Hardcover $20.00

Nov 07, 2006 | ISBN 9781583227473

Ebook $11.99

Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781609800567

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    About Soon the Rest Will Fall

    It seems like everyone in California is going to prison these days. And as another hot Christmas approaches in San Francisco, Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to make the street after a stretch in San Quentin. On the inside Robert and Slatts were inmates and lovers, but Robert has a young wife and a daughter on the outside and they’re probably not going to be thrilled about sharing him with Slatts. Trouble waits for them in the whitened winter sunlight of the city.
    Bleak and magical, afflicted with winos, yuppies, lawyers, tourists, parole officers, drug dealers, and cops, Soon the Rest Will Fall tells a tale of blight, recidivism, and transcendent love. Peter Plate brings us his best work to date—a manic, intensely human, and lyrical portrait of two cons trying to make it in the sweltering holiday madhouse of a three-time loser’s city by the bay.

    About Soon the Rest Will Fall

    It seems like everyone in California is going to prison these days. And as another hot Christmas approaches in San Francisco, Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to make the street after a stretch in San Quentin. On the inside Robert and Slatts were inmates and lovers, but Robert has a young wife and a daughter on the outside and they’re probably not going to be thrilled about sharing him with Slatts. Trouble waits for them in the whitened winter sunlight of the city.
    Bleak and magical, afflicted with winos, yuppies, lawyers, tourists, parole officers, drug dealers, and cops, Soon the Rest Will Fall tells a tale of blight, recidivism, and transcendent love. Peter Plate brings us his best work to date—a manic, intensely human, and lyrical portrait of two cons trying to make it in the sweltering holiday madhouse of a three-time loser’s city by the bay.

    About Soon the Rest Will Fall

    It seems like everyone in California is going to prison these days. And as another hot Christmas approaches in San Francisco, Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to make the street after a stretch in San Quentin. On the inside Robert and Slatts were inmates and lovers, but Robert has a young wife and a daughter on the outside and they’re probably not going to be thrilled about sharing him with Slatts. Trouble waits for them in the whitened winter sunlight of the city.
    Bleak and magical, afflicted with winos, yuppies, lawyers, tourists, parole officers, drug dealers, and cops, Soon the Rest Will Fall tells a tale of blight, recidivism, and transcendent love. Peter Plate brings us his best work to date—a manic, intensely human, and lyrical portrait of two cons trying to make it in the sweltering holiday madhouse of a three-time loser’s city by the bay.

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    Night of the Short Eyes
    With Death Laughing
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    Elegy Written on a Crowded Street
    Fogtown
    See all books by Peter Plate

    Also by Peter Plate

    Night of the Short Eyes
    With Death Laughing
    Dirty in Cashmere
    Elegy Written on a Crowded Street
    Fogtown
    See all books by Peter Plate

    About Peter Plate

    Named 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… More about Peter Plate

    About Peter Plate

    Named 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… More about Peter Plate

    About Peter Plate

    Named 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… More about Peter Plate

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jul 01, 2008 | 176 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | ISBN 9781583228395

    Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels

    Hardcover | $20.00
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Nov 07, 2006 | 176 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781583227473

    Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 176 Pages | ISBN 9781609800567

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    Praise

    “Peter Plate is the bard of San Francisco’s jails and residence hotels. Plate’s mastery of atmosphere is matched [in Soon the Rest Will Fall] by a remarkable empathy for his characters, whose greatest crimes, inevitably, are perpetrated in their helpless emotional abuse of one another.” –San Francisco Magazine


    “[Peter Plate is] a master of the omniscient form; he makes his narrative float seamlessly among the characters.” –Olivia Boler, Foreword Magazine

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