A day in the life of a smiling woman : complete short stories / Margaret Drabble ; edited by José Francisco Fernández.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Description: xxii, 227 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0547550405
- 9780547550404
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Main Library | Fiction | Drabble Mar | Available | 33111006375055 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 areperceptive, 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii).
Introduction -- Les liaisons dangereuses -- Hassan's tower -- Voyage to Cythera -- Faithful lovers -- Pyrrhic victory -- Crossing the Alps -- Gifts of war -- Success story -- Day in the life of a smiling woman -- Homework -- Merry widow -- Dower house at Kellynch : a Somerset romance -- Caves of God -- Stepping westward : a topographical tale.
A single-volume compilation of the author's previously uncollected short works offers insight into her use of irony, female friendships, and personal passions and is complemented by an introduction that places her works in a context of her life and novels.