The Haunted Boy

<p><i>His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.</i> <p>These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. <p>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.</p>