Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
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LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed
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.
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Intimate, overwhelming, prestige and earnest.
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The Room author’s tender and evocative novel, set during the 1918 flu pandemic, suffers from a surfeit of misery
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
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On Open Library, 6 have read it and 24 want to.
Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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“Is this Emma Donoghue's best work?”
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“Does the smallness hold it back?”
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“Is The Pull of the Stars a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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