Black flies

Shannon Burke

earliest edition we have, 2008 Soft Skull Press, 2008 185 pages

*Black Flies* is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance, and of a sin...

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Editions we hold

Black flies edition · 2010 · Charnwood · 9781444800579
Black Flies edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 9781409076827
Black Flies edition · 2009 · Counterpoint Press · 192 pages · 9781593762544
Black flies edition · 2009 · Harvill Secker · 185 pages · 9781846552830
Black Flies edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 192 pages · 9781409076834
Black flies edition · 2008 · Soft Skull Press · 185 pages · 9781593761912

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