Plate, Peter

San Francisco. 1994. Pressure Drop Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 096270914x. 271 pages. paperback. Cover photos & design by Winni Wintermeyer. keywords: Literature America San Francisco. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Desertvilie is dying slowly until The Operator decides to help out. Suddenly California's geriatric haven and corner of bored youth is in danger of becoming a Mecca for those who fear life more than death. The police chief and the district attorney want to rule over quiet suburbia, not the euthanasia capital of California . The Operator has to be stopped. Death's not too happy with The Operator either. Not even Death's natty Italian suits can cheer him up when The Operator ends his monopoly over who stays in the land of the living. Euthanasia is nudging him out of a job. And in the midst of death there is life . but not much of one. Families bore and misunderstand each other into three-meal-a-day comas. The only thing in Desertville more outrageous than the police chief's dress sense is his penchant for torturing prisoners. The old are trapped in worn out bodies and the young are stuck in a city whose main industry is old age. Big business conducts its own program when euthanasia starts to threaten its profits. And at the center of suburban bedlam a young woman teaches an older man how to fuck, and a divorcee discovers her lesbianism buried under years of a dull marriage. Love and loyalty are tested when euthanasia comes to town. inventory #26681 ISBN: 096270914x.