The Angels of Catastrophe: A Novel de Plate, Peter - 2001-05-10

Seven Stories Press, 2001. Trade paperback. Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 218 p. Audience: General/trade.

New York. 2001. Seven Stories Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1583220631. 218 pages. paperback. Cover design by Adam Simon. keywords: Literature Mystery San Francisco. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A cop is gunned down and unless Ricky Durrutti, a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet, can figure out who the real shooter is, he's a dead man. From Hunt's Donuts, opposite where the killing took place, to his room in the El Capitán Hotel, from the blue grass and steel Federal Building off Golden Gate Avenue to the Ritmo Latino record store, and from the Roxie Cinema on 16th Street to the Ramshackle Victorian homes of Treat Street where Lonely Boy lives--the chase is on. Salvadoreno gangs and Mexicans, cops and Jewish gangsters, drag queens and heroin addicts, speed freaks and low rent hookers, low-lives rising rising to the challenge of making sense of a murder. Out of the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski, here is the twenty-first… Leer más

Seven Stories Press. Fine. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1583220631 . Fine signed first edition. Fine paperback with french flaps, first printing (complete number line) signed by Plate on the title page. 218 pages, unmarked. [dp50 0217]. ; DPEC P FIC; 8.28 X 5.54 X 0.51 inches; 218 pages; Signed by Author .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.