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\"127 pieces of short fiction about the dynamics of family\"-- Provided by publisher.

''LITTLE BOY BLUE'' is the third book from [Edward Bunker], whose previous ''No Beast So Fierce'' was made into the movie ''Straight Time'' and whose adult life has been mainly spent in prison. Like the earlier books, ''Little Boy Blue'' explores the world of the criminal he knows so well; this time, Mr. Bunker describes the truncated life of a criminal adolescent growing up in California during the mid-1940's. He offers little of the smeared exaltations of Jean Genet or the rough Dickensian fun of Brendan Behan's ''Borstal Boy.'' Mr. Bunker tells his grim, wrenching story very plainly, in methodical, sometimes intense (but never rancorous) terms. The results are occasionally ungainly and flat, where the blend of remembrance, research and fiction starts to separate; but throughout the reader encounters the compelling force of a lived life. The situations in ''Truants'' (including highly detailed family histories of its main characters) develop the theme of how - in contrast to this fleeting household - most families, and their surrogates, wretchedly mishandle the business of nurturing and succoring. Mr. [Ron Carlson], who previously wrote ''Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,'' presents all of this in an affecting manner, with a very decent heart and a tart tongue. He practices a kind of wit that is at once tender, canny and vivid, capable of burnishing a passing moment with a quick touch. He has a lot of fun with contemporary Americana.(''I looked out the window,'' recalls [Collin Elder], ''at the forty million pizza parlors and dry cleaning shacks that free enterprise defines as landscape.'') Mr. Carlson is not, however, above the too improbable (the degree of Will's spryness, for example) and a much-heavier-than-air sentimentalism. Also, I'm really not comfortable with the sudden ending he's given ''Truants''; but there are numerous small pleasures that appeal about this book. To be fair, ''Dixiana Moon'' (Mr. [William Price Fox]'s sixth book) does have its entertaining moments as it bushwhacks along. The cultists and their activities seem authentically - and quite absorbingly - grotesque; the circus lore, as well as the inside look at commercial salesmanship and the printing business, are interesting (believe it or not). But the main character of Mr. Fox's brand-name-ridden saga is afflicted by an almost bizarre mix of personality traits. He goes back and forth between the wild and woolly and the unheroic and technical. ''That was me,'' cries [Joe Mahaffey], ''the drunkard, the wild man, the roaring, shouting, screaming crazy man whipping down the highway into sudden disaster or fantastic riches.'' Somehow, crazy Joe feels no conflict in the salesmanly noting of [Arlo Waters]'s socks (''They were short black stretch Dacron that fit any size from six to twelve.'') or the conscientious urge to scout Fruit of the Loom's undershirt packaging in a Georgia K-Mart.

\"In Haunted Traveller, his most personal and ambitious work, Barry Yourgrau takes the reader on a postmodern literary journey like no other. Here are forty-four fantastic episodes that together paint an imaginary memoir of one man's yearning, alienated passage through life, as written by this \"odd, wild, and brilliant master of absurd anxieties\" (Patrick McGrath). Think Bruce Chatwin meets Monty Python. Meets Paul Bowles meets Fellini meets Scheherazade meets The Twilight Zone. Think the moody romance of Travel itself. Haunted Traveller packs readers along on the moonstruck roaming of a lost soul searching for a childhood memento. Wander to tropical hotel rooms to hear deathbed whispers; climb to mountain graveyards where a ghost shops for a life wife; spy on stolen kisses in snowbound palaces. Voyage to lands that exist in the dreams, poetic whimsies, and troubled confessions of a man who's seen all too much. Mixing grand gestures of travel writing with Gothic horrors, amorous fables, adventure yarns, and lamplit fairy tales. Haunted Traveller brims with Yourgrau's trademark surreal wit. With this book, he creates a lushly atmospheric and intimate masterpiece that distills the sublime imagination of his earlier work and pushes it to a new, richly poignant level. Haunted Traveller solidifies Yourgrau's place as one of the most inventive and uniquely insightful writers working today. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction-novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home\"-- Provided by publisher.