- Chicken industry, Country life, Farm life, Farmers
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.
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Classical in form, resolved, comic and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Betty MacDonald
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Mayflower Dell, Avon Books, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, German, cze
- ISBN
- 9780862205102
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“ALONG with teaching us that lamb must be cooled with garlic and that a lady never scratches her head or spits, my mother taught my sisters and me that it is a wife's bounden duty to see that her husband is happy in his work.”
American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales. Best known for her book "[The Egg and I][1]". [1]: /works/OL273762W
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