"Period of adjustement" is about marital problems that surface at Christmas, in a comedy of human foibles and frustrations; "Summer and Smoke" is a turn of the century drama set in Mississippi. "Small Craft Warnings" is set in a bar on the Californian coast, where a group of people grapple with existence and survival.
- ISBN10 0140183760
- ISBN13 9780140183764
- Publish Date 25 May 1989 (first published 1 December 1961)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English