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The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316705295 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316705292 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: v, 406 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
- Edition: Large print edition ; first edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Nurses > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Pregnant women > Fiction. Hospitals > Maternity services > Fiction. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Ireland > Dublin > Fiction. Medical personnel > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Large print books. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | LT DONOG E (Text) | 33126024365714 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
- Grand Central Pub
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).
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 come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsidersâDoctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.
In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. 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.