Fogtown
A Novel
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
One foggy day in San Francisco brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyperliterate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armored car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate uses a loving hand to carve his characters out of hallucination, perversity, and tenacity. Plate's noir sensibility gives him special fluency with the weary souls of urban America's down and out; Fogtown describes a new age unmistakably built on the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A former squatter turned novelist takes a close look at San Francisco's seamy side as its maladjusted denizens careen against each other over the course of a single strange and magical day. When an armored Brink's truck is wrecked in front of the squalid Allen Hotel, an old woman finds herself an unexpected (and illegal) millionaire. Instructed by God to dole out the cash as proof of divine love, she meets up with drug dealers, losers, stoners and miscreants, all wheeling and dealing in a neighborhood where redemption doesn't come easy. Peter Plate (Police and Thieves; Angels of Catastrophe) paints another poetically gritty Bay City tale in Fogtown.
