Book summary of The Desperate Hours by Marie Brenner
Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn’t somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York’s hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. But The Desperate Hours is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other.
Details of e-book The Desperate Hours
- Author(s): Marie Brenner
- Title: The Desperate Hours
- Rating: 4 out of 5 base on 47 reviews
- Publisher: Flatiron Books (June 21, 2022)
- ISBN-10: B0966BHFN9
- ISBN-13: 978B0966BHFN1
- Language: English
- Print length: 487 pages
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
