The Egg and I - Softcover

MacDonald, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060914289 ISBN 13: 9780060914288

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1987

Synopsis

[ { By MacDonald, Betty ( Author ) THE EGG AND I Jun-24-2008 Paperback } ]

About this title

Review:

"Anyone who has ever struggled with a farm or even with a small garden will especially enjoy this breezy autobiography, But everyone will find its hilarious reminiscences of an unconventional childhood and of unique experiences in the Northwest Pacific sprightly, diverting, and excellent entertainment. The whole book crackles with the innocent deviltry of acorns hitting the roof-tops." -- "Saturday Review of Literature""For all the allegedly gloomy moments, The Egg and l is an astoundingly light-hearted book. The MacDonalds, one gathers, had both youth and gumption on their side, to say nothing of an abounding humor that bounced them over the direst crises." "-- New York Times"

From the Publisher:

Written over 50 years ago Betty's books have not 'dated'.
Although I have read and re-read Betty MacDonald's four autobiographical books many times, I can honestly say that each one of them makes me laugh, every time, and often out loud.

She had the midas gift of turning dross into gold. She was not one of Fate's favourites. Some terrible things happened to her. But she had the guts never to cringe, but always bounce back.

She would never have claimed it; she probably never knew it; but she was a woman of indominatable spirit. Which is why I am proud to publish THE EGG AND I, THE PLAGUE AND I, ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING and ONIONS IN THE STEW. And she was funny. Always funny. But not always 'politically correct' of course.

We have had many complaints about this, in single figures and all concerned with Betty's portrayal of some 'Native Americans'.

She was writing in the late 1940s, and she wrote down the truth as she experienced it - you might say a kind of personal history. Does 'political correctness' demand that we alter personal history? Surely that is the 'correctness' of Stalin. We have got rid of that - haven't we?

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060914289
• ISBN 13: 9780060914288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288