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

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. With an introduction by the Spanish academic Jos Fern ndez that places the stories in the context of her life and her novels, this collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/27/2012
ISBN: 9780547737355
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 04/29/2012 pg. 24