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May 12, 2020 · Emma Donoghue on Writing About the 1918 Spanish Flu - The Atlantic. Books. Emma Donoghue Talks About Her New Novel, The Pull of the Stars. “An epidemic is a narrative gold mine: It ups the ...
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS The Pull of the Stars. 1. How has the current pandemic changed the way you approach The Pull of the Stars? What similarities do you see between the pandemic in the novel and the one we’re living through now? What details are different? 2.
- Two Actors, One Room
- Deciding What Stays and What Goes
- Writing Anywhere and Everywhere
- Let The Light in
"Although it has some technical challenges, in that you're locked in a room for the first half, I had a feeling that the actual storyline was one that could carry its own. Until now, none of my books have ever been filmed, so this one, I just had a feeling that the child's point of view and the story might carry it. "A Few Good Men is all set in a ...
"In a few cases, Lenny [Abrahamson] allowed me to un-make decisions I had made about the film at the outset. For instance, I had the sense that the long hair was going to be a problem because in the book Jack just occasionally mentions having long hair; it's no big deal. I thought in the film, it will be so visually striking if he's got long hair, ...
"I've never had an office away from my home and I'm not at all precious about the writing process. I don't have to have one special pen or anything. I can write on airplanes, on trains, in cafés. These days I've got a treadmill desk, so some of the later drafts would have been written on my treadmill desk. I hate exercise. The treadmill desk can so...
"Lenny said to me, 'For Ma, we need someone who can do comedy.' I said, 'Really? Comedy?' He said, 'Yeah, yeah. We need someone who is not sort of pre-determined tragic. We need somebody who might have been the girl next door and ordinary and have had a care-free life. She's ended up in this extraordinary situation, which has brought out these trag...
Sat Sep 15 2012 - 01:00. Since the success of her novel ‘Room’, Emma Donoghue can write whatever she wants and never what she’s told to. But things changed when she was asked to write a play ...
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. Outside, the country roils with political turmoil, and World War I rages on.
- Little, Brown And Company
The Pull of the Stars is Donoghue’s thirteenth novel (and seventeenth book of fiction). On publication it became a #1 bestseller in Ireland and Canada - staying on Canadian bestseller lists for eight months - and made the New York Times list as well as the Sunday Times list (UK) as well. It was shortlisted for the Easons Irish Novel of the ...
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Sep 27, 2010 · In Donoghue's 'Room,' A Mother And Child Make A World Of Their Own Emma Donoghue's captivating novel Room is narrated by a 5-year-old boy named Jack. The setting is an 11-by-11-foot room where he ...
