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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781583226391
- ISBN-10: 1583226397
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- Publish Date: June 2004
- Dimensions: 8.26 x 5.62 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 168
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