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  1. Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars must be the most accidentally timely novel of the year. Although completed before the current pandemic, it is set in a ...

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    • Charleston Literary Festival
  2. Apr 8, 2024 · A little more insight to what to expect from the world premiere of THE PULL OF THE STARS The Gate Theatre presentsTHE PULL OF THE STARS By Emma DonoghueDire...

  3. 5. “The Pull of the Stars captures the essence of resilience and hope, reminding us of the unbreakable human spirit even in the bleakest of times.” – Prominent novelist. Unique Final Thoughts: “The Pull of the Stars” is a profound and captivating exploration of the human condition during one of history’s most devastating pandemics.

  4. Jul 27, 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, by the bestselling aut...

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  5. 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 ...

  6. 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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  8. 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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