A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories - Hardcover

Drabble, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547550405 ISBN 13: 9780547550404

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs; in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. An introduction by the Spanish academic José Fernández places the stories in the context of her life and her novels. This collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.

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Hardcover

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547550405
• ISBN 13: 9780547550404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227
• Editor: Fernandez Jose Francisco