Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Bringing Out the Dead
Book Review: Full of Misery and Mercy
Summary: 5 Stars
Joe Connelly's first book is a huge success. It's been a while since I've read a writer that so thoroughly closed the aesthetic distance between the text and the reader. Connelly's powers of description are enormous, poetic, and relentlessly original. He manages, somehow, to anchor the plot to a narrator that floats and characters that scurry in and out of the narrative like alley rats. BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is a must read for anyone that wishes to become involved with big city emergency medicine. It is also a must for readers that care about excellent writing that covers the many familiar bases of the post-modern novelist: isolation, alienation, chaos, the anit-hero.Book Review: no plot at all. and that's a good thing
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is quite simply a 3 day look at a man's life through the eyes of his job. It's intense and personal. From front cover to back you watch Frank and his life as an EMS worker in NY. Simply AmazingBook Review: Never say die
Summary: 4 Stars
Working in emergency rooms as a nurse for over 20 years led me to consider this book. I usually do not care to read true life ER type books..why do I want to read about what I see day in and day out? But, this is a novel which just so happens to be as authentic as it can be without being some ER person's diary. The frame of reference is factual. The addition of fiction is perfect and original. Finally a story that reflects the sacrifices many of us encounter, perhaps not to such extremes, but sacrifices none the less. In such a story, Joe Connelly literally demonstrates all those people "lost" in the hands of emergency personnel, and the realization that in our minds we carry them around with us always, ever reconstructing events, pondering what-ifs, and finally having to give up the ghost..even taking their spirits to bed with us so we can at last get some rest. A brilliant, gutsy novel.Book Review: Never say die
Summary: 4 Stars
Working in emergency rooms as a nurse for over 20 years led me to consider this book. I usually do not care to read true life ER type books..why do I want to read about what I see day in and day out? But, this is a novel which just so happens to be as authentic as it can be without being some ER person's diary. The frame of reference is factual. The addition of fiction is perfect and original. Finally a story that reflects the sacrifices many of us encounter, perhaps not to such extremes, but sacrifices none the less. In such a story, Joe Connelly literally demonstrates all those people "lost" in the hands of emergency personnel, and the realization that in our minds we carry them around with us always, ever reconstructing events, pondering what-ifs, and finally having to give up the ghost..even taking their spirits to bed with us so we can at last get some rest. A brilliant, gutsy novel.Book Review: Bringing Out The Dead
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the best books I have read. It made great reading while waiting for the next ambulance call.Connelly is a genious, I have felt like Frank many times (Just wanting a quiet shift and four days off)and it is good to show the rest of the world that sometimes The Para-Gods have clay feet