Onions in the Stew - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0871293838 ISBN 13 : 9780871293831

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1908 (some sources indicate 1907) – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington state. MacDonald was born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado. Her official birth date is given as March 26, 1908 (although federal census returns seem to indicate 1907), Her family moved to the north slope of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1918, moving to the Laurelhurst neighborhood a year later and finally settling in the Roosevelt neighborhood in 1922, where she graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1924. MacDonald married Robert Eugene Heskett (1895–1951) at age 20 in July 1927;[4] they lived on a chicken farm in the Olympic Peninsula's Chimacum Valley, near Center and a few miles south of the seaside community of Port Townsend. She left Heskett in 1931 and returned to Seattle, where she worked at a variety of jobs to support their daughters Anne and Joan; after the divorce the ex-spouses had virtually no contact. She spent nine months at Firlands Sanitarium near Seattle in 1937–1938 for treatment of tuberculosis. On April 24, 1942, she married Donald C. MacDonald (1910–1975) and moved to Vashon Island, where she wrote most of her books. The MacDonalds moved to California's Carmel Valley in 1956. MacDonald rose to fame when her first book, The Egg and I, was published in 1945. It was a bestseller and was translated into 20 languages. Based on her life on the Chimacum Valley chicken farm, the books introduced the characters Ma and Pa Kettle, who also were featured in the movie version of The Egg and I. The characters become so popular a series of nine more films were made featuring them. In the film of The Egg and I, made in 1947, MacDonald was played by Claudette Colbert. Her husband (simply called "Bob" in the book) was called "Bob MacDonald" in the film, as studio executives were keen not to raise the matter of MacDonald's divorce in the public consciousness. He was played by Fred MacMurray. Although the book was a critical and popular success at publication, in the 1970s it was criticize for its stereotypical treatment of native Americans. It was also been claimed that it "spawned a perception of Washington as a land of eccentric country bumpkins like Ma and Pa Kettle.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The author and her family cannot find a place to live in or near Seattle, so move to Vashon Island Wikipedia. Numerous adventures ensue. (This book is a reprint)

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871293838
• ISBN 13: 9780871293831
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible