![]() Meanwhile, a world war and a pandemic rage beyond the hospital walls, and hard feelings linger from the doomed Easter Rising two years earlier. The Pull of the Stars, which takes its title from the Italian origin of the word influenza, unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day-with a chatty cast of priests, nuns and philosophizing orderlies running about-adding to the sanctified air Donoghue establishes. ![]() Also like Nick, Julia is drawn to an alluring, mysterious figure who forces her to rethink how human nature-how God, how life-actually works. It is not unlike the birthday revelation Fitzgerald’s own narrator Nick Carraway has, as youth yields to a more perilous, even tragic age. ![]()
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