What's It Like Out?

Synopsis of What's It Like Out?

«What's It Like Out?» is Penelope Gilliatt's collection of short stories, published by Virago Press Ltd in paperback (208 pages, in English).

Penelope Gilliatt's first collection of stories, originally published in 1968. Her stories portray love, friendship and loneliness through characters such as an inseparable comic duo, a marriage sunk in silence or a customs officer who flees with his son. Gilliatt combines lucidity and comedy in the face of human singularity.

This edition, published on May 18, 1989, belongs to the Virago Modern Classics series (number 644).

Suitable for readers of short stories and for those interested in twentieth-century English fiction and in the Virago Modern Classics collection.