Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

  1. Jan 3, 2023 · The novel’s title comes from the ancient belief that epidemics were caused by the influence of the stars. And the four sections of The Pull of the Stars — Red, Brown, Blue, and Black — represent the colors of the face in an influenza patient. As Julia explains, “it starts with a light red you might mistake for a healthy flush.

  2. Jul 21, 2020 · All the stars! I finished The Pull of the Stars over last weekend, a buddy read with my dear friend, @bibliobeth. We gobbled this book up. At 304 pages, and taking place over only 3 days, this book is something, and I mean something remarkable. The Pull of the Stars makes my second book I’ve read about the 1918 influenza pandemic in the last ...

    • (82.6K)
    • Hardcover
  3. 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 ...

  4. Jul 20, 2020 · 'The Pull Of The Stars' Review: Emma Donoghue's Disquieting Pandemic Novel Set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918, the novel captures a city devastated by a pandemic.By diving into the terrors of ...

  5. Jul 21, 2020 · THE PULL OF THE STARS By Emma Donoghue 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.

  6. Jul 21, 2020 · Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Pull of the Stars’ sets a gripping story in the midst of the 1918 flu pandemic. Set at a Dublin hospital in the grip of the 1918 flu pandemic, Emma Donoghue’s 11th ...

  7. People also ask

  8. Jul 18, 2020 · The Pull Of the Stars was written many months before the world had heard of Covid-19 or the wet markets of Wuhan. Donoghue herself has admitted how “eerie” it has been to re-read her text in ...