New York
- 2013also Amsterdam
A boy who survives a museum bomb keeps a stolen painting, from New York to Amsterdam.
- 1992Brooklyn, New York
1920s Brooklyn: a Western Union hiring boss, a failing marriage and a city of strangers.
- 1991Greenwich Village, New York
1920s Greenwich Village: Tony’s wife Hildred falls for another woman, Vanya.
- 1978
- 1977Times Square, New York
1953: the Rosenbergs are to be executed in Times Square, told by Richard Nixon.
Napa Valley
- 1883Mount Saint Helena, Napa Valley
Stevenson’s honeymoon in a ruined silver mine above the Napa Valley.
Monterey
- 1962Bixby Canyon, Monterey
Kerouac flees his fame to Ferlinghetti’s cabin in Bixby Canyon and cracks up.
- 1959Big Sur, Monterey
Perlès joins Henry Miller in his Big Sur cabin, twenty years after their Paris years.
- 1957Big Sur, Monterey
Miller’s fifteen years on the cliffs of Big Sur, with neighbours, children and visitors.
- 1956Big Sur, Monterey
The astrologer Moricand comes to stay at Miller’s Big Sur cabin, and it goes badly.
- 1945
Mississippi River
- 1884
1840s: Huck and the runaway slave Jim drift down the Mississippi on a raft.
Atlanta
- 1936Tara, Atlanta
1861–1873: Scarlett O’Hara, Tara and Atlanta through the Civil War and after.