With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. I. Red. The Pull of the Stars, published in , 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 pandemic of , which was also the last year of World War I. Emma Donoghue is an extremely talented author, each of her books are unique and each are gems. In her latest “The Pull of the Stars” she takes us the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital at the height of the Spanish Flu pandemic, so TIMING! This novel is action-packed! It left me breathless several times/5().
Emma Donoghue's 'The Pull of the Stars' sets a gripping story in the midst of the flu pandemic. Set at a Dublin hospital in the grip of the flu pandemic, Emma Donoghue's 11th. Emma Donoghue via Wikicommons "The Pull of the Stars" by Emma Donoghue is pages worth of medical jargon, disguised as a novel to appeal to a wide range of readers. It was like Emma researched the complications of childbirth from a century ago and was so fascinated that she decided to turn it into a book. THE PULL OF THE STARS By Emma Donoghue. In Emma Donoghue's arresting new page-turner of a novel, "The Pull of the Stars," an urban hospital is overwhelmed by victims of a cruel new disease.
Emma Donoghue is an author whose work I usually enjoy, but once in a while, she pulls a "meh" on me. The Pull of the Stars is one of those books. Set in Dublin in the midst of the Spanish flu pandemic, it focuses on Julia Power, a nurse in charge of a small ward (three at a time) whose patients are pregnant women who are showing symptoms of the flu. Wendy Smith, 'Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Pull of the Stars’ sets a gripping story in the midst of the flu pandemic', Washington Post 21 July , www.doorway.ru Emma Donoghue Talks About Her New Novel, The Pull of the Stars. “An epidemic is a narrative gold mine: It ups the stakes for the most everyday interaction between characters, because every kiss.
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