The Plague and I: Common Reader Editions
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DWV3RL2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
" The Plague and I" recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. In "Onions in the Stew", MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry ride from Seattle.. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. "Anybody Can Do Anything" is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how "the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family" brightened their weathering of the Great Depression
Great Story about a Historic location near Seattle D.C.R. I had seen the movie "the egg and I" of course and knew it was based out here in northwest where I have lived all my life but I really didn't know anything about the author Betty McDonald until a few years ago our local paper did a story on her and her books then I saw "The Plague and I" it sounded very funny to me and she is! even while undergoing a harrowing health scare and stay at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the late 1930's so that is great story on it's own but for me what I found so fascinating is that I have been th. HOW BETTY MACDONALD BROKE DAD'S TEETH Bellabell Sixty years ago, a sullen fourteen-year old, I curled up in a big armchair and read THE PLAGUE AND I. My laughter got louder and louder, closer to shrieks, and finally my father stormed into the room and yelled, "Quit that! No book is that funny!" He grabbed the book from me and said, "Go do your homework!" I stormed outside and flopped huffily into the hammock.When, huffed out, I finally came back in, my mother said, "Well, I hope you're satisfied! Your father's teeth are broken!" I was used to getting blamed for small cri. lovin' life said Betty MacDonald ia a great author. As a depression baby and growing up in the results thereof, I find this book and the rest of Betty's books to be great reading.Do you ever wonder why people born in that era save almost everything? Tell you to eat everything on your plate? Why therewas so much TB and how they dealt with it? What life was like for so very many people at the start of World War II? In spiteof it all, there was great courage and amazing humor in it if you kept the right attitude. Betty catches that humor and courage very well in her books. I su