Sunshine Preferred
The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman
Published on 1. October 1984
Book
Paperback/Softback
249 pages
978-0-8032-6709-1 (ISBN)
Description
Long before laughter was prescribed for illness, Anne Ellis wrote with unexpected humor of her extended bout with the "villain" asthma. Sunshine Preferred sums up the attitude of a remarkable woman whose illness interrupted a busy life as politician and breadwinner for two children. In the 1920s she is shuffled from home in Colorado to sanitariums in sunny Arizona and New Mexico. Throughout the long ordeal, she showed her zest for life in writing vivid sketches of her doctors, nurses, and fellow patients.
Anne Ellis advises the reader: "Don't read this book unless you are a person who never has been ill, or who is now ill, or who is just recovering from illness, or who hopes never to be ill."
Anne Ellis advises the reader: "Don't read this book unless you are a person who never has been ill, or who is now ill, or who is just recovering from illness, or who hopes never to be ill."
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-6709-1 (9780803267091)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Anne Ellis will be remembered as the author of two other autobiographical books, Plain Anne Ellis (BB 817) and the classic Life of an Ordinary Woman (BB 736).