Anybody Can Do Anything - Softcover

Betty MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704102439 ISBN 13: 9780704102439

Publisher: George Mann Books, 1991

Synopsis

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the ̃rst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and — click — knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and ̃ery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald’s ̃rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald’s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. 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. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Betty MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. The Plague and I takes up Betty's delightful misadventures where The Egg and I left off. She continued chronicling her life story with memoirs Anybody Can Do Anything and finally Onions in the Stew. She lived on Vashon Island in Washington's Puget Sound.

Review:

Improbably funny.

--Steve Donoghue "Open Letters Monthly "

About this edition

• Publisher: George Mann Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0704102439
• ISBN 13: 9780704102439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224