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Bringing Out the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joe Connelly is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Perhaps only 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 ("the ghosts that once visited my dreams had followed me out to the street and were now talking back"), and as real to him as his own skin. And in reaction to her death, Frank has desperately resurrected a patient back into a life now
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- Author
- Joe Connelly
- Publisher
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780751523768
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Medical, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (829 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14