Boy's Life

Robert McCammon delivers "a tour de force of storytelling" (BookPage) in this 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...

Author: Robert McCammon
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9781416577782
ISBN10: 1416577785
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
- Fiction | Horror | General