 Among the many nonfiction treatments of tuberculosis, "Illness as Metaphor" by Susan Sontag (1979) compares the metaphorical portrayal of the disease to cancer.In his autobiography "Angela's Ashes", Frank McCourt portrays the prevalence and impact of consumption during his childhood in Ireland.In "The Plague and I" the author Betty MacDonald describes her nine months stay at a tuberculosis sanatorium and tuberculosis treatment in the pre-antibiotics era.