young men

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Bob Dollar, a young Denver man, learns the hard way how vigorously owners will try to hold on to their land when he goes scouting for the site of a hog farm for his employer Global Pork Rind in the rural Texas town of Woolybucket.

Michael Chabon chronicles the experiences he had during his first postgraduation summer.

Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood.".

Eric, at loose ends after abandoning his college plans, forced to make some decisions about his life when his old girlfriend, the high school's Big Game, well-intentioned friends, and the mother of his daughter, all converge over the course of one week in his very small West Virginia home town.

A mother recalls her son Stephen's turbulent adolescence--filled with gangs, crime, and instability--and describes the steps she took to understand his thoughts, feelings, and actions and bring him back into a safe realm.

The author remembers his youth in mental hospitals, his disfiguring acne, his love affair with another hospital patient named Laura, and his time, at age sixteen, spent living in the 1970s Manhattan gay scene with his uncle, writer Edmund White.

Paul Morel, a painter from a British working-class family, is unable to choose between his possessive mother and two young beautiful women.

Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity.