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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 ...
Sep 13, 2010 · 4. War in several senses–the First World War in which Tim Power served, and the Irish revolutionary struggle in which Dr. Lynn is a leader–is the context to The Pull of Stars. What effect do these distant conflicts have on the story and atmosphere of the novel? Why is war kept mostly in the background rather than in the foreground? 5.
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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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.