Soon the Rest Will Fall

A Novel

By: Peter Plate

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Hardcover | 7 November 2006 | Edition Number 1

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176 Pages

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21.5 x 13.9 x 1.9

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“His San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squad car, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Plate describes San Francisco with the careful eyes of an insider and without judgment. . . . Peter Plate is one of the most intriguing novelists writing now.”—Review of Contemporary Fiction

Slatts Calhoun and Robert Grogan saw things in San Quentin State Prison that were a far cry from the safe existence of working at a nine-to-five job, paying the mortgage, being married, and having children. They witnessed rapes and riots, convicts getting shot by guards, stretches in solitary confinement, lousy food, and no privacy. But when they are paroled and let out onto the gritty streets of San Francisco, they discover that things might have been better in prison after all.

Peter Plate delivers a manic, intensely human, and lyrical portrait of two cons trying to make it in the sweltering holiday madhouse of a three-time loser’s San Francisco.

Industry Reviews

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

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