Fairly typical 1950s teenagers Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard find their lives turned upside down when Janet becomes pregnant Arthur is desperate to tell his parents of the predicament he and Janet are in, but wh
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalti
A New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers
In 1944, the family lives of three San Francisco Marines are affected by their personal experiences on the front lines in the Pacific and vice versa
At his fathers funeral, Joe Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol But it st
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career