Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance by Mike Scardino (English) Hardco

Description: Bad Call by Mike Scardino "A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college students experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James Patterson FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college students experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James PattersonIn 1967, Mike Scardino was an eighteen year-old pre-med student with a problem - his parents couldnt afford to pay his college tuition. Luckily, Mikes dad hooked him up with a lucrative, albeit unusual, summer job, one hes never forgotten. Bad Call is Mikes visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late 1960s New York, at a time when emergency medicine looked nothing like it does today. Fueled by adrenaline and Sabretts hot dogs, he crossed third rails to pick up injured trainmen, encountered a woman attacked by rats, attended to victims of a plane crash at JFK airport, was nearly murdered, and got an early and indelible education in the impermanence of life. But his work also afforded moments of rare beauty, hope, and everyday heroism, and it changed the course of Mikes life as well as the way he saw the world. Action-packed, poignant, and rich with details that bring Mikes world to life, Bad Call is a gritty portrait of a bygone era as well as a thrilling tale of one mans coming of age. Author Biography Mike Scardino is a native of Elmhurst, Queens. In order to pay for college, he worked on a New York City ambulance as a teenager, which led to his decision not to pursue medicine as a career. Mike eventually found his way into advertising, where his ambulance experience proved to be an unexpectedly useful fit. He is married to the woman he met his third day at college and has three daughters. He currently resides in South Carolina. Review "Bad Call is a compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college students experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City."--James Patterson"[A] fresh and powerful debut memoir...From accidental deaths to suicides, Scardino writes with the detail of a crime reporter...Scardinos unsparing memoir offers an empathetic look at human pain and suffering."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"A laugh-till-you-cry look at 1960s New York through the eyes of an ambulance driver who saw the city at its most vulnerable and bloody. Scardino, who worked in a Queens ambulance for four summers in the 1960s, encountered the grotesque and the ludicrous daily and shares his tales in hilarious and harrowing detail. A fun slice of NY life that is not for the squeamish."--NY Post"In the late 1960s, Mike Scardino took a summer job on an ambulance crew in New York City, offering him a strange, macabre, and compelling insight into a part of city life seldom seen...Morbid and entertaining: a snapshot of life and death in the big city of a bygone era."--CrimeReads"This remarkable memoir, a vivid and gruesome record of his experiences...are like a punch in the gut. Even when a patient survives, there is always suffering, which Scardino captures with empathy and outrage."--National Book Review Long Description "A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college students experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James Patterson In 1967, Mike Scardino was an eighteen year-old pre-med student with a problem - his parents couldnt afford to pay his college tuition. Luckily, Mikes dad hooked him up with a lucrative, albeit unusual, summer job, one hes never forgotten. Bad Call is Mikes visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late 1960s New York, at a time when emergency medicine looked nothing like it does today. Fueled by adrenaline and Sabretts hot dogs, he crossed third rails to pick up injured trainmen, encountered a woman attacked by rats, attended to victims of a plane crash at JFK airport, was nearly murdered, and got an early and indelible education in the impermanence of life. But his work also afforded moments of rare beauty, hope, and everyday heroism, and it changed the course of Mikes life as well as the way he saw the world. Action-packed, poignant, and rich with details that bring Mikes world to life, Bad Call is a gritty portrait of a bygone era as well as a thrilling tale of one mans coming of age. Review Quote "Inthis fresh and powerful debut memoir, Scardino looks back on his summers duringcollege in the late 1960s when he worked as a New York City hospital ambulanceattendant...Scardino recounts in short chapters the many emergencies he witnessedand assisted in that showed him the entire catalog of horrifying things thatcan happen to a human body. From accidental deaths to suicides, Scardinowrites with the detail of a crime reporter...Scardinos unsparing memoir offersan empathetic look at human pain and suffering." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Promotional "Headline" "A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college students experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City." -- James Patterson Details ISBN0316469610 Author Mike Scardino Year 2018 ISBN-10 0316469610 ISBN-13 9780316469616 Format Hardcover Pages 304 Imprint Little, Brown & Company Subtitle A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher Little, Brown & Company DEWEY 616.025092 Short Title Bad Call Language English US Release Date 2018-08-16 Publication Date 2018-08-16 UK Release Date 2018-08-16 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-09-10 AU Release Date 2018-09-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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