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One foot off the gutter / a novel by Peter Plate.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.L268 O53 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plate, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--California--San Francisco--Fiction.
- Police.
- Squatters.
- California--San Francisco.
- Squatters--Fiction.
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Criminals.
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.)--Fiction.
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.).
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Seven Stories Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The first novel in the Mission Quartet takes place in the late 1980s. Coddy, a policeman and the story's narrator, is 47 years old, underpaid, and overweight. His partner, Bellamy, lives out of their shared squad car. When a fellow officer is gunned down, a neighborhood of abandoned buildings becomes a war zone for transients, middle-class professionals, and thieves.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Icommunicado Press, 1995.
- ISBN:
- 1583222596
- OCLC:
- 47136670
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