Anybody Can Do Anything
Anybody Can Do Anything (Common Reader Editions) Betty MacDonald, Macdonald
Publisher: Joiner/Oriel Inc
ISBN: 1888173289
Edition: Paperback; 2000-03
Summary:
You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the Þrst few moments of
meeting? Something clicked, we say. Well, thats 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 Þery company I was really
going to enjoy. Although MacDonalds Þrst 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 MacDonalds 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.
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