Robert McCammon delivers βa tour de force of storytellingβ (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.
Robert McCammon delivers βa tour de force of storytellingβ (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.
Boyβs Life is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the youngβand of innocence lost.
Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackensonβa 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 lakeβand a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his fatherβs 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 hometownβfor his fatherβs sanity and his own life hang in the balanceβ¦