La peste e io
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Anni ‘40. Colpita dalla tubercolosi, Betty viene ricoverata in sanatorio. La cura – all’epoca non esistevano antibiotici adatti – prevedeva che i pazienti giacessero a letto immobili per settimane. Non potevano alzarsi, parlare, leggere o scrivere. Per fortuna, però, Betty è un’ottimista e ha uno spiccato senso dell’ironia che le consente di guardare in faccia la malattia e le regole apparentemente folli del sanatorio. Pur rivelando la paura, la disperazione e certi tratti meschini della vita in ospedale è capace di sorriderne, di avere pietà degli altri e anche di sé stessa. MacDonald offre una grande lezione di vita a chi desidera coglierla; è inutile fingere di non vedere la disperazione, il dolore, la solitudine; è molto meglio accogliere questi compagni di certi periodi dell’esistenza con una risata – anche se un po’ a denti stretti.
- ISBN: 889871369X
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 23-02-2017
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Funny, moving, original, fascinating.
I found this book while trawling through a charity shop. It had a beat up old green-and-white Penguin binding, and having a bit of a secret love for plague stories -- like _A Journal of the Plague Year_ -- I bought it for something like 10 p without even cracking it open to get a taste. Turns out it Leggi tutto
Betty MacDonald was a national treasure, and I can't believe that her books don't get more attention. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books are fantastic, both clever and funny, all while teaching kids to be kind, respectful, and to pick their shiz up off the dang floor! This is the second of her memoirs, aft Leggi tutto
Comic novels: this is one of the better ones. As late as the mid-Twentieth Century, tuberculosis ("TB" or "the white plague") was something to be feared and reviled. In popular mythology, a healthy redhead like Betty MacDonald should never have developed TB, but she did, an experience she likens to
The Plague and I is the second memoir by Betty MacDonald, and listening to it really transports the reader back to the 30s, when times were simpler yet also more complicated in some ways. In this story, MacDonald recalls her childhood and then her tuberculosis diagnosis, and the majority of the stor Leggi tutto
Let's be honest: Betty MacDonald's chronicle of a year spent in a sanatorium recuperating from tuberculosis in the days before antibiotics sounds like an unlikely candidate for a humorous memoir. The Plague and I proves, however, the author's gift of weaving homestyle insight with her funny upbringi Leggi tutto
I read Betty MacDonald's "The Egg and I" many years ago and still recall with delight her hilarious adventures while chicken farming on the Olympic Peninsula in the 30's. Only recently did I become aware of "The Plague and I", the story of her time spent in a tuberculosis sanitarium in Seattle in th Leggi tutto
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