Anybody Can Do Anything - Softcover

MacDonald, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295999799 ISBN 13: 9780295999791

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2016

Synopsis

"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression.

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Review:

Improbably funny.

Author: Steve Donoghue Source: Open Letters Monthly

Betty MacDonald endured for me. This was because she was funny. No, that’s not quite right. Betty MacDonald was comic. As I became a writer myself, I studied her, trying to figure out just how she did it. . . . What MacDonald achieves in Anybody Can Do Anything is . . . a finely observed journalistic record of her time. . . . The message that MacDonald had sent me is one of sufficiency. The homely, she says is more than enough. There’s a clue, of course, right there in the title. It’s been telling me since I was a girl, right up through the time I became a writer myself. Anybody can do anything. Even this. Even you.

Author: Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses

From 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0295999799
• ISBN 13: 9780295999791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240