The Plague and I

Betty MacDonald

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"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. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."

Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium--making all of us laugh in the process.

Book Details

Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2016
Pages: 240
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.60lb
EAN: 9780295999784
Categories: • Women• United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)• Disease & Health Issues

About the Author

MacDonald, Betty: - Northwest writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) is best known for her entertaining and successful 1945 memoir The Egg and I, about moving to the Olympic Peninsula with her new husband and attempting to raise chickens, as well as her subsequent Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books for children.

Praise for this book

"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"