Soon the Rest Will Fall A Novel

"Peter Plate is the bard of San Francisco's jails and residence hotels. His critically praised novels, including One Foot off the Gutter and Fogtown, reveal a shadow city ordinarily manifest only to those caught in its eclipse. . . . 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 MagazineIt's coming up on another hot Christmas in San Francisco, and Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to make the street after a stretch in San Quentin prison. 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.Peter Plate, whom the Review of Contemporary Fiction calls "one of the most intriguing novelists writing now," is a self-taught fiction writer. His eight novels include One Foot off the Gutter, Snitch Factory, Police and Thieves, Angels of Catastrophe, and Fogtown.

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 with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir "psychic histories" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.