A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
The Collected Stories
$24.20
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2012
Summary
From the acclaimed writer Margaret Drabble, here are her short stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141196435 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141196432 |
| Author: | Margaret Drabble |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Brims with sharply observed life and the author’s seemingly infinite sympathy for “ordinary women”
Brims with sharply observed life and the author’s seemingly infinite sympathy for “ordinary women” – Joyce Carol OatesDrabble writes so penetratingly about the female condition that it is impossible not to laugh, wince and admire – Amanda Craig * New Statesman *
About The Author
Margaret Drabble
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.
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