The pull of the stars
Título
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The pull of the stars
Emma, Donoghue
Resumen
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Dublin, 1918. 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.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
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2020
Descripción física
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v, 295 pages ; 25 cm
Selected for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller longlist.
Término de la materia
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Nurses -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Hospitals -- Maternity services -- Fiction.
Quarantine -- Fiction.
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Medical personnel -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction.
Término geográfico
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Ireland -- History -- 1910-1921 -- Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Género
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Historical fiction
Síntesis
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Dublin, 1918. 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.
ISBN
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9781443461788
Información de publicación
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Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue, 2020.
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Edmonton Christian High | FIC DON | Book | 30905000112510 | Fiction |