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Also by Margaret Drabble:

The Pure Gold Baby, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, May 2011
Hardcover
The Pattern in the Carpet, September 2009
Hardcover

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMILING WOMAN
By: Margaret Drabble

Complete Short Stories

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 2011
On Sale: May 18, 2011
256 pages
ISBN: 0547550405
EAN: 9780547550404
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry

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 José Fernández 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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