A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Drabble, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141196432 ISBN 13: 9780141196435

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

About this title

Review:

Brims with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women" (Joyce Carol Oates)

Drabble writes so penetratingly about the female condition that it is impossible not to laugh, wince and admire (Amanda Craig New Statesman)

From the Back Cover:

Praise for Margaret Drabble

“Reading Margaret Drabble’s novels has become something of a rite of passage . . . [They are] sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love.”—Washington Post

 

“Gorgeous writing . . . [Drabble’s] flawed and oh-so-human characters appall and enthrall.”—Boston Globe

“As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh.”—Los Angeles Times

“Margaret Drabble will have done for late-twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London.”—New York Times

“The intensity, the seriousness, the playfulness—I loved, and still love, these characteristics of Drabble’s work, as I do the sense of a writer continually interrogating the nature of the world, and of our place in it.”—Andrea Barrett

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141196432
• ISBN 13: 9780141196435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256