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Jul 21, 2020 · In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together.
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Jul 21, 2020 · In Emma Donoghue’s arresting new page-turner of a novel, “The Pull of the Stars,” an urban hospital is overwhelmed by victims of a cruel new disease. The sounds of wracking coughs cut...
Jan 3, 2023 · The great triumph of The Pull of the Stars is Donoghue’s careful description of the minute-to-minute life of a nurse fighting to save the lives of her patients. It’s gruesome going at times, but the action is never less than gripping.
Jul 21, 2020 · THE PULL OF THE STARS. by Emma Donoghue ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020. Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue’s best novel since Room (2010).
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Jul 20, 2020 · Set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918, the novel captures a city devastated by a pandemic. By diving into the terrors of the past, Emma Donoghue presciently anticipates the miseries of our...
Jul 21, 2020 · Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Pull of the Stars’ sets a gripping story in the midst of the 1918 flu pandemic. Review by Wendy Smith. July 21, 2020 at 10:59 a.m. EDT. Set at a Dublin hospital in...
Jan 21, 2021 · Emma Donoghue's new novel unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—with a chatty cast of priests, nuns and philosophizing orderlies running about—adding...
