ISBN: 9781583220634 - angels of catastrophe: a novel (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ricky Durrutti is a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet. He's also a dead man unless he can trace Jimmy Ramirez, the guy he gave his gun to - a gun it turns out was later used to kill a cop which has put Durrutti in the frame for murder. Set in the murky streets of San Francisco's Mission District, this is the crowning work in Plate's 'Mission Quartet', four novels of petty crime and petty criminal justice that vividly bring alive the world of petty crime and petty criminal justice so often visited by such writers as Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski.…

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276. . 2001. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Angels of Catastrophe is the fourth and crowning work in Plate's Mission Quartet, set in San Francisco's Mission District.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 Capitn 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 livesthe 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 century world of Peter Plate.…

Zustand: New. Named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004,&#160PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with&#160Black Wheel of Anger&#160(1990) and .