Ambition

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The...

On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out...

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found...

Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers...

A film student from Long Island, who cut his dying father’s cough out of the home movies at thirteen, spends four years filming everyone but...

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing...

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him,...

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed...

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as...

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor,...