Elegy Written on a Crowded Street A Novel
, by Plate, PeterNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781583229316 | 1583229310
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/26/2010
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 Fillmorestrippers, alcoholic policemen, psychic gunshot victims, fugitivesas 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.