Black flies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Shannon Burke
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781846552830
Subjects: Emergency medical technicians; Fiction
Description: 'Black Flies' is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-1990s Harlem. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, bad cops, and one medic's struggle to balance his instinct to help against the growing callousness within him that witnessing daily horrors seems to encourage.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Soft Skull, 2008.