Бетти Макдоналд

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came th...

В сборник вошли произведения признанных мастеров американской прозы. В них отражены разные периоды в жизни Соединенных Штатов, многие исторические события, судьбы людей различных поколений. Объединяет и роднит эти произведения стремление авторов найти и показать духовные истоки, черты национального характера своего народа.

"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...