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Centenary of the Great Flu
- Back in October 2018, Donoghue began to think about the centenary of the Great Flu, which prompted her to start writing The Pull of the Stars. Donoghue only finished her manuscript two days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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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.
Jul 30, 2020 · Why you’ll love it. Back in October 2018, Donoghue began to think about the centenary of the Great Flu, which prompted her to start writing The Pull of the Stars. Donoghue only finished her manuscript two days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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.
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.
Jul 21, 2020 · In “The Pull of the Stars,” Donoghue has pulled off another feat: She wrote a book about a 100-year-old flu that feels completely current, down to the same frustrations and tensions and...
Jul 20, 2020 · As Donoghue explains in the author's note to her new novel, The Pull of the Stars, she began writing the story in 2018, inspired by the centenary of the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Jan 3, 2023 · The novel’s title comes from the ancient belief that epidemics were caused by the influence of the stars. And the four sections of The Pull of the Stars — Red, Brown, Blue, and Black — represent the colors of the face in an influenza patient.
