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Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman Complete Short Stories

by Margaret Drabble, Jose Francisco Fernandez
Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman Complete Short Stories

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ISBN13: 9780547550404
ISBN10: 0547550405
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The first story in this collection, "Les Liasions Dangereuses," appeared in Punch in 1964, when Drabble was a bright brand-new literary sensation. It is about a self-conscious young man at an intellectual party who accidentally sets a glamorous young woman's hair on fire. Then came stories in Mademoiselle, the Saturday Evening Post, Ms, Cosmopolitan ...stories of all the women Drabble has written about, and sometimes been, from the 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

As always, her work is astoundingly perceptive, sharp, and funny. It embraces marriage, affairs, global warming, career success, real estate, genetics, gin-and-tonics, female friendships, mountain climbing, motherhood, and everything else that Drabble has taken an interest in over the past fifty years. This collection is a wonderful development for readers who already know and love her work — its almost like discovering fifteen new novels — but its also a terrific place to start.

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"Smooth, reflective prose....Drabble's fans will savor these bite-sized examples of her humane intelligence." Kirkus Reviews

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A collection of the famed UK novelist Margaret Drabble's complete short stories.

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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 Jose Fernandez 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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Margaret Drabble is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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Contents

Introduction ix

Note on the Present Edition xxi

Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1

Hassan’s Tower 7

A Voyage to Cythera 23

Faithful Lovers 41

A Pyrrhic Victory 53

Crossing the Alps 63

The Gifts of War 85

A Success Story 103

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman 115

Homework 141

The Merry Widow 151

The Dower House at Kellynch:

A Somerset Romance 169

The Caves of God 193

Stepping Westward:

A Topographical Tale 207


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I've recently rediscovered how much I admire the genius of Margaret Drabble, and these short stories were not a disappointment. They were collected from stories Drabble wrote over decades and they reflect not only the changes she so brilliantly observed in society, but also reflect her point of view at different stages in her own life. I would compare Drabble favorably with another Margaret (the brilliant Margaret Atwood) as one of the two best authors of the last forty years. They never disappoint.

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ISBN:
9780547550404
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
05/18/2011
Publisher:
CLARION & MARINER
Pages:
227
Height:
8.25
Width:
5.25
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Margaret Drabble
Editor:
Jose Francisco Fernandez
Author:
Jose Francisco Fernandez
Subject:
Family saga
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Stories (single author)

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