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Boy's Life

by Robert Mccammon

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Publisher Comments:

In me are the memories of a boy's life, spent in that realm of enchantments. These are the things I want to tell you....

Robert McCammon delivers "a tour de force of storytelling" (BookPage) in his award-winning masterpiece, a novel of Southern boyhood, growing up in the 1960s, that reaches far beyond that evocative landscape to touch readers universally.

Boy's Life is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young — and of innocence lost.

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson — a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake — and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him. From an ancient mystic who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown — for his father's sanity and his own life hang in the balance....

Review:

"Wonderful...filled with enough adventures, joy, discovery, and heartache for a dozen boys' lifetimes." — Houston Chronicle

Review:

"No one can paint word pictures as vividly as Robert McCammon." — Sandra Brown

Review:

"It's McCammon's The Prince of Tides.... Incredibly moving." — Peter Straub

Product Details

ISBN:
9781416577782
Author:
Mccammon, Robert
Publisher:
Pocket Books
Author:
McCammon, Robert
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Good and evil
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
July 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
610
Dimensions:
8.28x5.34x1.71 in. 1.24 lbs.

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