A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her,…

With the coming of summer, three high school buddies–Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley–anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and…

Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley, a devotee of Thoreau, decides to leave the city to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient…