The pull of the stars : a novel

The Resource The pull of the stars : a novel
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The pull of the stars : a novel
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Emma Donoghue
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic
  • In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways
Cataloging source
TEFOD
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6054.O547
LC item number
P85 2020eb
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
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