The Haunted Boy

by Carson McCullers

Published 22 February 2018

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.

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