A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780141196046 (0141196041)
Publish date: June 1st 2011
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 223
Edition language: English
What most strikes me about Margaret Drabble's writing is her clarity. In each story, she paints so particular a portrait with perfect telling details. If someone in the distant future wants to know how the British lived and felt and *were* generally in the middle and end of the 20th century, they wo...
1 - The Gifts of War: Worlds collide over a birthday present in this 1970 entry from the author's collected stories.2 - A Success Story: A night out leaves playwright Kathie contemplating relationships and success in this 1972 story read by Tracy Wiles.3 - A Voyage to Cythera: A chance encounter lea...
This book gets three stars for being incredibly well written. Where it falls short for me is in the subject matter. Silent desperation in daylight has never been something that interested me, and after a few hours of such stories I was ready to believe that there was no point to life.
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