Onions in the Stew

Onions in the Stew
by Betty MacDonald

Onions in the Stew
List Price: $23.95
Our Price: $11.00
You Save: $12.95 (54%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)

Book Summary Information

Author: Betty MacDonald
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2000-08
ISBN: 0783891075
Number of pages: 351
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company

Summary of Onions in the Stew

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the ̃rst few moments of meeting? ?Something clicked,? we say. Well, that?s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and ? click ? knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and ̃ery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald?s ̃rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald?s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how ?the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family? brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle.

Memoirs Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Memoirs Books
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century ImageKingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
by Hunter S. Thompson
Penguin Books, Limited (UK); Published: 2008-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.11
Price in other shops: $22.00
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed ImageNever Have Your Dog Stuffed
by Alan Alda
Arrow Books; Published: 2007-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.59
Price in other shops: $11.00
The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition ImageThe Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition
by John DeLucie, Graydon Carter
Ecco; Published: 2009-05-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.77
Price in other shops: $23.99
Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units ImageBrotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units
by Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century
Ecco; Published: 2008-04-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.82
Price in other shops: $25.95
Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival ImageNot Lost Forever: My Story of Survival
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
William Morrow; Published: 2009-10-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: $25.99
Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider ImageUnlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider
by Louis Ferrante
Harper Perennial; Published: 2009-02-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.98
Price in other shops: $14.99
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher ImageWriting Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
by William Zinsser
Harper; Published: 2009-05-19; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.08
Price in other shops: $22.99
Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn ImageGot the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn
by Fieldy
William Morrow; Published: 2009-03-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.98
Price in other shops: $26.99
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) ImageAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Harper Perennial; Published: 2008-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.72
Price in other shops: $15.99
The Ride of My Life ImageThe Ride of My Life
by Mat Hoffman
It Books; Published: 2003-09-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.95
Similar Books and other products
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir ImageThe Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Harper; Published: 2010-06-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops: $24.99
Much Laughter, a Few Tears: Memoirs of a Woman's Friendship with Betty MacDonald and Her Family ImageMuch Laughter, a Few Tears: Memoirs of a Woman's Friendship with Betty MacDonald and Her Family
by Blanche Caffiere
Trafford Publishing; Published: 2011-05-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.87
Price in other shops: $15.52
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ImageMrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
Harper Collins Publishers; HarperCollins; Published: 1994-06-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.64
Price in other shops: $5.99
Nancy and Plum ImageNancy and Plum
by Betty MacDonald
Knopf Books for Young Readers; Published: 2010-10-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops: $15.99
The Egg and I ImageThe Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
J. B. Lippincott Company; Published: 1945-01-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $499.00
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm ImageMrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm
by Betty MacDonald, Maurice Sendak
Harper Collins Publishers; HarperCollins; Published: 1985-08-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.40
Price in other shops: $5.95
Anybody Can Do Anything ImageAnybody Can Do Anything
by Betty Macdonald
George Mann Books; Published: 1991-12-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $61.55
Plague & I ImagePlague & I
by Betty Macdonald
George Mann Books; Published: 1994-12-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $126.03
The Egg and I ImageThe Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
Harper Perennial; Published: 1987-08-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.86
Price in other shops: $13.99