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Joe connellys bringing out the dead is a work of the literary art that charts with compelling power the unraveling of a young man, a paramedic, who nightly has to handle the most desperate and extreme human disasters in manhattan. Bringing out the dead by joe connelly 1998, hardcover. Joe connelly is the author of bringing out the dead, which was made into a film by martin scorsese. Connelly is best known for his first novel, bringing out the dead, which was made into an eponymous film.
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