A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

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"Many [of the stories] glimmer with irony, lyricism, moral vision and (despite their page counts) amplitude we associate with Drabble's novels." —New York Times Book Review

"Show[s] a mastery of the [short-story] form . . .Brilliantly dramatic . . . Prick these moody and introspective characters, and they do bleed." —All Things Considered

"Landmark." —Vogue

"Drabble is one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation . . . A sympathetic clear-mindedness characterizes Drabble’s short fiction." —Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker "What distinguishes Drabble's fiction from the commonplace is that, like Doris Lessing's early work, it nails femaleness . . . [The stories] bring magic that will stay with us." —San Francisco Chronicle "Written over a period of 50 years, these stories reveal a great deal about a writer best known for her novels." —Los Angeles Times "Margaret Drabble is well-known to Anglophiles for the witty, incisive Brit-chick-lit she's been writing since the 1960s. But even those who have never dabbled in Drabble will enjoy this slim volume of 14 stories spanning the decades between 1966 and 2000....With her snappy pacing and signature sense of irony, Drabble gives us a sense of the various feminist growing pains progressive women have experienced over the past 50 years, and articulates some of the frustrations and triumphs we're still experiencing today." —Bust "The stories, ordered by year of publication, reveal themselves to be fascinating companions to both Drabble's larger canon and, it seems, her personal life . . . The stories themselves are so well-crafted, so illustrative of Drabble's keen eye and literary talent, that their excellence is what shines through, and rightfully so." —Portland Oregonian "[R]eaders will enjoy following the leitmotifs of Drabble's worlds while also recognizing the evolution of her craft and the choices of her heroines." —Publishers Weekly (starred)  Drabble is "a writer of acid wit, keen plots, and psychological acuity... Electrifyingly precise and darkly funny...she also has a mythic feel for landscape and the awe nature inspires, thus anchoring her masterfully drawn characters and their provocative dilemmas to the larger, living world in stories as piercing as they are dazzling." —Booklist,starred "Smooth, reflective prose... Drabble's fans will savor these bite-sized examples of her humane intelligence." —Kirkus Reviews

 

“Perfectly turned works . . . A grand feat, and something to smile about.” — Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“Landmark.” — Vogue

Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction, never before collected, has its own unique brilliance. In stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny she explores marriage, female friendships, the tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, and displays penetrating evocations of character and place, wide-ranging curiosity, and a sense of irony. This collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.

“[These] glimmer with the irony, lyricism, moral vision, and amplitude we associate with Drabble’s novels.” — New York Times Book Review

“Woman in her essence: complicated, contradictory, and courageous . . . Magic that will stay with us.” — San Francisco Chronicle

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of the novels The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle’s Eye, among other books. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.