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  1. www.bookrags.com › studyguide-the-pull-of-the-starsThe Pull of the Stars Summary & Study Guide - BookRags.com

    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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      The point of View of The Pull of the Stars is first person...

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  2. www.supersummary.com › the-pull-of-the-stars › summaryThe Pull of the Stars Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

    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 ...

  3. www.emmadonoghue.com › books › novelsThe Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue

    The Pull of the Stars was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Book Club choice, a Reader's Digest Book Club Pick and an Australian Women's Weekly Book Club Pick as well as an Oprah Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 and a Guardian, Telegraph, NPR, CBC, Globe and Mail, Cosmopolitan and Chapters Indigo Best Book of 2020. The unabridged audiobook read by Emma Lowe won an AudioFile ...

  4. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue - Goodreads

    Jul 21, 2020 · All the stars! I finished The Pull of the Stars over last weekend, a buddy read with my dear friend, @bibliobeth. We gobbled this book up. At 304 pages, and taking place over only 3 days, this book is something, and I mean something remarkable. The Pull of the Stars makes my second book I’ve read about the 1918 influenza pandemic in the last ...

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  5. funfandomblog.wordpress.com › 2020/09/15 › book-clubBook Club: The Pull of the Stars – A Blog of Books and Musicals

    Sep 15, 2020 · When Emma Donoghue began writing The Pull of the Stars, we lived in a different world. Now, COVID-19 has everyone looking back at the 1918 influenza and making comparisons. Many of the details of Julia’s life—the reminders to wear masks, the understaffed and overstuffed hospitals, the constant fear and suggested quack cures—are all too ...

  6. www.npr.org › 2020/07/20 › 8922796581918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A ... - NPR

    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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  8. www.americamagazine.org › arts-culture › 2021/01/21Review: ‘The Pull of the Stars’ brings a Gatsbyesque approach ...

    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 ...