A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories

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Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people.From one man’s honeymooning epiphany in ‘Hassan’s Tower’ to the journeying fantasies of ‘A Voyage to Cythera’, and from the sharp joy of ‘The Merry Widow’ to the bloody reality of the collection’s title story, these are moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading practitioner of the art of the short story.

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Weight 0.191 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

256

Publisher

Year Published

2012-6-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141196432

About The Author

Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble, and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of eighteen novels and eight works of non-fiction, including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. In 1980, Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and lives in London and Somerset.

Brims with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women"

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Drabble writes so penetratingly about the female condition that it is impossible not to laugh, wince and admire

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