The Plague and I by Betty Macdonald
Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus."Improbably funny. . equally remarkable."
-- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *"Can you imagine writing a whole book about being forbidden to do anything other than lie in bed? But Betty does, and she somehow makes it a riveting chronicle."
-- Lory Widmer Hess * Emerald City Book Review *"An appetizing, well-seasoned feast. MacDonald’s sharp, witty observations as she spends almost a year in The Pines Clinic, outside of Seattle, are perfectly pitched to satisfy readers of memoirs and historical and journalistic fiction, with a huge dollop of idiosyncratic humour. It more than satisfies, in fact, because MacDonald is an impressive and engaging storyteller."
-- Jules Morgan * The Lancet *"MacDonald writes about her seclusion in a way that is painfully, barkingly funny. . . . Her style is completely her own, the sprawling sentences packed with anecdote, incident, bang-on simile and throwaway wit—it’s like overhearing a conversation between someone who keeps forgetting to breathe and another who keeps asking ‘and what happened next?"
-- Lissa Evans * Guardian *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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780295999784 |
| ISBN 10 | 0295999780 |
| Title | The Plague and I |
| Author | Betty Macdonald |
| Series | The Plague And I |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
| Year published | 2016-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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