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Jul 21, 2020 · ‘blame the stars… thats what influenza means. influenza delle stelle - the influence of the stars. medieval italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates.’ not gonna lie - this started out rough for me. the narrative style is… a choice. lol. i was actually quite adverse to it in the beginning. but ive really enjoyed EDs other books, so i stuck with it ...
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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 ...
The Pull of the Stars is a 2020 novel by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue first published by Little, Brown and by Picador in the UK. [1][2][3] The novel was written in 2018–2019, and published earlier than originally planned because it was set in the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dublin, Ireland. All the characters were fictional except Dr Kathleen ...
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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Jul 30, 2020 · Except in Emma Donoghue ’s new novel, the year is 1918, not 2020, and the plague is the deadly, indiscriminate Spanish influenza, not COVID-19. The book unfolds over three harrowing days in the life of level-headed Dublin nurse Julia Power as she works furiously alongside a tough Dickensian orphan and a steely female doctor.
May 12, 2020 · For The Pull of the Stars, I was able to draw on wonderful sources, from newspaper articles that mentioned odd details (such as, say, a paper being printed with blank pages during power outages ...
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Jan 21, 2021 · The Pull of The Stars by Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown and Company 304p, $28. ... resonant novel—what Julia says about birth is also true about death. And love. And war, religion and history ...