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Zusatztext “[Plate] can write! and he certainly knows his terrain ... try to catch him at a spoken word event or reading! where he often recounts his stories from memory. It's clear they are intertwined with his life.” – San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Peter Plate Klappentext 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 Fillmore—strippers, alcoholic policemen, psychic gunshot victims, fugitives—as 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Fillmore—strippers! alcoholic policemen! psychic gunshot victims! fugitives—as 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. ...
