A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMILING WOMAN: THE COLLECTED STORIES

Book ID/图书代码： 06580011B47271

English Summary/英文概要： Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection shows her to be a leading practitioner of the art of the short story, presenting her complete short fiction for the first time in a single volume, spanning four decades, from 1964 to 2000.

Several of the stories, like The Dower House at Kellynch, are set in Somerset and Dorset and reflect their author’s intimate knowledge of the land and flora there, but their settings also range as far as Elba and Cappadocia. Taken as a whole, the stories reflect the social changes of the past forty years, by showing the English at home and abroad. In ’The Gifts of War’, peace-protesting students clash with a mother buying a toy for her son, with tragic consequences. An Englishman on honeymoon has a brief but significant epiphany, finding a shared humanity with a Moroccan crowd in ’Hassan’s Tower’. Their protagonists are men and women, husbands and lovers, television presenters and housewives, all subtly and precisely captured as products of their time and place. In his introduction, Spanish scholar José Francisco Fernández celebrates the ’pure and simple pleasure to be found in reading these survivalist, questioning, belligerently intense short stories’.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Margaret Drabble是一位小說家，評論家和傳記作家，也是她那個時代的主要文學人物之一。這本故事選集，表明她是短篇小說藝術的一個重要的工作者，我們首次走近她的這部單卷長達四十年的，從1964年至2000年撰寫完成的短篇小說。
其中的幾個故事，如《 The Dower House at Kellynch》（在Kellynch遺孀的房產），以英國的薩默塞特和多塞特郡為故事背景，作品反映出作者對那裡的土地和植物知識的通曉，但Margaret盡可能將故事地點設置在厄爾巴島（義大利西岸島嶼）和卡帕多西亞（小亞細亞東部古國）範圍內。把它們作為一個整體，通過英國人在國內和國外的故事，反映過去40年的社會變遷。在’The Gifts of War’（戰爭的禮物）這本書裡，反對和平的學生們和為兒子買玩具的母親因發生衝突而演變成悲劇結果。一個正在度蜜月的英國人頓時有了短暫的，卻很重要的感悟，在’Hassan’s Tower’（哈桑塔）擁擠摩洛哥的人群中找到一個完全的人性。這些故事選集的主人公有男性和女性，丈夫和戀人，電視節目主持人和家庭主婦，所有微妙的和精細的描述，都像是作為那個時代和地點的標誌。在他的作品介紹中，西班牙學者José Francisco Fernández讚歎道‘在閱讀過這些死裡逃生，質疑，頑固的激烈的短篇小說後會發現純粹和簡單的快樂。’(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：

About the Author/作者介绍： Margaret Drabble 1939年出生于英國謝菲爾德市的約克郡，是出庭律師和小說家John F. Drabble的女兒，也是小說家A.S. Byatt.的妹妹。她是十八部小說和八部紀實性散文的作者。其作品包括1980年出版的《Arnold Bennett和Angus Wilson傳記》，Margaret Drabble被授予二等勳位爵士，在2008年又被授予高級英帝國女勳爵士。她與傳記作家Michael Holroyd成婚，並居住在倫敦和薩默塞特。

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.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：

原文第一章内容：暂无

手稿：暂无

大纲：暂无