Soon The Rest Will Fall: A Novel

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Slatts Colhoun and Robert Grogan saw things in San Quentin State Prison that were a far cry from the safe existence of working a nine-to-five job - they witnessed rapes, riots, guards shooting convicts, solitary confinement and no privacy. But when they are paroled and let out onto the gritty streets of San Francisco they discover new complications: the two men had been cellmates and lovers; Robert has a wife and kid on the outside and the two separate worlds are about to collide.

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Peter Plate is the bard of San Francisco's jails and residence hotels. Plate's mastery of atmosphere is matched [inSoon 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

Author Bio

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