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   Jan 21, 2021 · The Pull of the Stars, which takes its title from the Italian origin of the word influenza, unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—with a chatty ...

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   Julia tells us that the word influenza means “the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed” (147). a. Are mortals like Julia defenseless against the push and pull of fate, of a force as powerful as the influenza?

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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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   Apr 11, 2024 · The Pull of the Stars Gate Theatre, Dublin Emma Donoghue , author of Room and Haven, here adapts her eponymous 2020 novel – a shockingly well-timed yarn about the 1918 flu pandemic – into a ...

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   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 ...

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   Jul 21, 2020 · The Pull of the Stars takes place in a Dublin maternity ward amid the 1918 pandemic, and the novel centers on three women — a nurse, a doctor and a volunteer — tending to infected women over the course of three days. Inside, patients die, and children are born.

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   • The Pull of the Stars is, however, most memorable for the developing relationship between Julia and Bridie. Donoghue does not have much space for manoeuvre here – it’s a shortish play with a lot else going on – but she exploits it economically as traumatised by mortality, the two find a modicum of solace beneath the night sky.

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   • 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 is an exceptional read. Brutal, but not without the essentials of compassion and dedication. And the profound reality is that humanity rises up, time and time again, for another day. I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review.

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   • The Pull of the Stars, which takes its title from the Italian origin of the word influenza, 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 to the sanctified air Donoghue establishes.

   Review: ‘The Pull of the Stars’ brings a Gatsbyesque

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   • Reading about horrors that we survived is oddly comforting. The Pull of the Stars takes place in a Dublin maternity ward amid the 1918 pandemic, and the novel centers on three women — a nurse, a doctor and a volunteer — tending to infected women over the course of three days. Inside, patients die, and children are born.

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   • The Pull of the Stars takes place in a Dublin maternity ward amid the 1918 pandemic, and the novel centers on three women — a nurse, a doctor and a volunteer — tending to infected women over the course of three days. Inside, patients die, and children are born. Outside, the country roils with political turmoil, and World War I rages on.

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   Jul 21, 2020 · THE PULL OF THE STARS. Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue’s best novel since Room (2010). A nurse in a Dublin hospital battles the ordinary hazards of childbirth and the extraordinary dangers of the 1918 flu. Donoghue began writing this novel during the 1918 pandemic’s centennial year, before ...