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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 influenza ...
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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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 ...
In 1918, both World War I and the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic are raging. Death is everywhere. This is especially true for Julia, a nurse at a major hospital in Dublin. She sees signs of sickness and death even as she commutes to work on the tram, such as people covering their faces and closed-up storefronts.
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 had happened in ...
Jul 22, 2020 · I cycled through reeking Dublin streets that were slick with rain. My short green cape kept off the worst, but my coat sleeves were soon wet through. A waft of dung and blood as I passed a lane ...
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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 ...
