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  1. www.supersummary.com › the-pull-of-the-stars › summaryThe Pull of the Stars Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

    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 ...

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    The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Donoghue, Emma. The Pull of the Stars. Harper Avenue, 2020. Donoghue divides the novel into four sections: Red, Brown, Blue, and Black which depict three days in the life of narrator, Julia Power. In “Red,” midwife Julia goes to work at a Dublin hospital on October 31st 1918.

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    Jul 21, 2020 · The Pull of the Stars is Emma Donoghue's newest release, eerily relevant to today. We follow Nurse Julia Powers in the midst of the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 Ireland. She works at an overcapacity hospital in the maternity ward, and we see her both bring life into the world and struggle against the pull of the stars-the merciless influenza ...

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    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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    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.

  7. www.emmadonoghue.com › books › novelsThe Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue

    The Pull of the Stars. The Pull of the Stars (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; London: Picador, 2020). 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. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an ...

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  9. www.supersummary.com › the-pull-of-the-starsThe Pull of the Stars Symbols & Motifs - SuperSummary

    Julia’s Watch. Julia marks the patients who die under her care by scratching symbols on the back of her watch. She uses a loose nail in the wall to make the marks, privately, so that patients won’t notice. Julia explains, “I’d formed this habit the first time a patient died on me. Swollen-eyed, at twenty-one, I’d needed to record what ...