Soon The Rest Will Fall

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It's drawing towards another hot Christmas in San Francisco and Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to be freed after a stretch in San Quentin prison. On the inside Robert and Slatts were inmates and lovers, but on the outside Roberts has a wife and daughter who probably aren't going to be that thrilled about sharing him with Slatts. Bleak and magical, afflicted with winos, yuppies, lawyers, tourists, parole officers, drug dealers and cops, this is a wonderful tale of blight, recidivism and love.

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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 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.