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If anything was written in the stars, it was we who joined those dots, and our lives were the writing” (244). b. Do Julia, Bridie, and the others ultimately submit to the pull of the stars, or do they escape their fate? Also discuss the idea of the influenza as a living entity. * Some questions from Westfargond.
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Overview. The Pull of the Stars, published in 2020, is a work of historical fiction by Emma Donoghue, an Irish Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. The novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize. Told from the first-person point of view of protagonist Julia Power, the story is set at an Ireland hospital during the ...
Book Club in a Bag Discussion Questions. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue. 1. According to the authors note, Emma Donoghue began this story in 2018, and delivered the final draft in March 2020. Her publishers fast tracked the release of the book.
Sep 15, 2020 · When Emma Donoghue began writing The Pull of the Stars, we lived in a different world. Now, COVID-19 has everyone looking back at the 1918 influenza and making comparisons. Many of the details of Julia’s life—the reminders to wear masks, the understaffed and overstuffed hospitals, the constant fear and suggested quack cures—are all too ...
The Pull of the Stars was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Book Club choice, a Reader's Digest Book Club Pick and an Australian Women's Weekly Book Club Pick as well as an Oprah Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 and a Guardian, Telegraph, NPR, CBC, Globe and Mail, Cosmopolitan and Chapters Indigo Best Book of 2020. The unabridged audiobook read by Emma Lowe won an AudioFile ...
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue CITY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB READING GUIDE About the book Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.
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Sep 13, 2010 · 4. War in several senses–the First World War in which Tim Power served, and the Irish revolutionary struggle in which Dr. Lynn is a leader–is the context to The Pull of Stars. What effect do these distant conflicts have on the story and atmosphere of the novel? Why is war kept mostly in the background rather than in the foreground? 5.
