A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories
A Fiction, Contemporary, Short Stories book. I am the first to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the...
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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- Pages: 223 pages
- ISBN: 9780141196435 / 141196432
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I am the first to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the short story form, probably because I'm such a lousy short story writer. That said, this is a wonderful book for folks like me. Each story (collected from Drabble's ouevre from 1964 to 2000 and in chronological order) is a precise and whole story. Not like today's metafiction wherein... I wasn't familiar with Drabble's works before now. These are all written with a female slant and not much happens, but I give credit to a writer who can take a situation with not much happening and create a not only an atmosphere, but a whole story. It's the same when someone says, I don't have anything to eat and they order a pizza... Lucky me for receiving this as a GoodReads First Reads giveaway. Otherwise, I may have gone my entire reading life without discovering Margaret Drabble.Three of the stories, in particular, stood out for me: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (one man's attempts at getting noticed at "a party where no one gets introduced"), "Hassans Tower" (a...
