Bringing Out the Dead - Rilegato

Connelly, Joe

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ISBN 10: 0375400400 ISBN 13: 9780375400407

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A debut novel follows the frantic life of a brash EMS medic working in New York City, where he tries to cope with his wife's departure, his creeping alcoholism, and the excitement and horror of the ambulance call. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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L'autore:

Joe Connelly worked for nine years as a medic for St. Clare's Hospital in New York City, where he was born. He lives in New York City and is at work on his second novel.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result is a debut novel of extraordinary power and intensity.

In Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's Kitchen, Connelly gives us a man who is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill ("the best drug in the world") and the mission of the job, Frank is nevertheless drowning in five years' worth of grief and guilt--his own and others': "my primary role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness." His wife has left him, he's drinking on the job, and just a month ago he "helped to kill" an eighteen-year-old asthmatic girl. Now she's become the waking nightmare of all his failures: hallucination and projection ("

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375400400
• ISBN 13: 9780375400407
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 271