Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald

During the depression she went back to live. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Anybody Can Do Anything takes up Betty MacDonalds story before her bout with tuberculosis in The Plague and I. Betty MacDonald (19071958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs.

Anybody Can Do Anything (about surviving the Great Depression) Onions in the. Lippincott & Company, 2000 Textbook Binding 4. Betty MacDonald, bestselling mid-century author, specialized in writing. 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. Anybody Can Do Anything Common Reader Editions MacDonald, Betty MacDonald Joiner/Oriel, 2000 paperback English 3.) Anybody Can Do Anything B. 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. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald’s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis.

Although MacDonald’s 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. 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 Þery company I was really going to enjoy. Anybody Can Do Anything Paperback 18 July 1991 by Betty MacDonald (Author) 129 ratings Book 3 of 4: Betty MacDonald Memoirs Series Audiobook £0.

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the Þrst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say. Betty MacDonald returns us to her humorous world, this time during the Great Depression in Seattle.

Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald