When fourteen-year-old Jerry, a student reporter, tries to interview elderly Paul Bernard, a truculent legless recluse and the most brilliant novelist in the world, the visit breaks Bernard's case of writer's block and sends him down the long road af...
Tired of living with an abusive father and an unloving mother, who supervise a rural prison farm, thirteen-year-old Pickle and the released black convict he has befriended travel all the way across America in search of adventure, freedom, and a life ...
Following Harlow Purdy's release from prison, he and his son Roy travel across Depression-era America to California, where father and son are forced to accept exploitive wages for their work in a fruit grove...