Kevin Hazzard worked as a paramedic from 2004 to 2013, primarily at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. His freelance journalism has appeared in Atlanta Magazine, Marietta Daily Journal, Creative Loafing, and Paste. He is the author of a novel, Sleeping Dogs, and A Thousand Naked Strangers. He and his family live in Hermosa Beach, California.
"A shocking, utterly compelling tour de force that shows the dark
heart of an Atlanta that I never knew existed...I couldn't let the
book go--it's powerful enough to have turned me into an ambulance
chaser in my own small South Carolina town, but it's also very,
very funny."
--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and The Great
Santini
"A thrilling, captivating, and sometimes grisly glimpse into what
it takes to be a first responder in the city of Atlanta. Hazzard's
prose is quick, witty, and fresh...This frank and morbidly funny
memoir...takes readers on a wild and unforgettable ride."
--Booklist
"Action-packed...With blunt language and a raw narrative tone rich
with gruesome detail, Hazzard immerses readers in the bloody,
hardened reality of an emergency response team racing to accident
scenes....[Features] anecdotes both thrilling and startlingly
gory...A vivid, pummeling ride-along."
--Kirkus Reviews
"An unstoppable adrenaline rush with lyrical moments of truth and
beauty."
--Theresa Brown, author of Critical Care
"As absorbing as it is revealing."
--Bob Drury, coauthor of The Heart of Everything There Is
"Buckle up and prepare for an eye-opening plunge into barely
controlled chaos."
--Judy Melinek, M.D., coauthor of Working Stiff
"Get ready to feel the gun-slinging, God-like power of running
calls in the back of an ambulance."
--Julie Holland, M.D., author of Weekends at Bellevue
"Hazzard observes keenly, remembers faithfully, but also struggles
to analyze his motives for loving those crazy nights on the bad
side of town when the universe slips a gear and all hell breaks
loose."
--J.Michael Lennon, author of the authorized biography Norman
Mailer
"Hazzard's unblinking view of chaos is not for weak stomachs, but
it's variously raw, poetic, and profoundly hopeful."
--Publishers Weekly
"More tragic andhorrifying, but also more comical, than can be
imagined."
--Katrina Firlik, author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
"No one has a closer view into our fearful hearts than the
paramedic, and no one writes it like Kevin Hazzard. He's given us a
deep intimate portrait of the toll it takes to every day witness
our most vulnerable moments."
--Joe Connelly, author of Bringing Out the Dead
"Take a terrific writer and put him in tragic, frantic, emotional,
heartbreaking and freaking situations for years--you get A Thousand
Naked Strangers...This book is one long rush."
--Phillip Jennings, author of Nam-a-Rama and Goodbye Mexico
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