Boy’s Life
Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon is a reprint edition published by Simon and Schuster in July 2008, featuring 624 pages in English. This novel presents a vivid portrayal of Southern boyhood set in the 1960s, exploring themes of innocence and the complexities of growing up. The story follows eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson in Zephyr, Alabama, as he navigates a world filled with both wonder and darkness, beginning with a traumatic event that forever alters his understanding of life and death.
Readers will find a richly imagined narrative that delves into Cory’s journey as he grapples with the haunting vision experienced by his father after a tragic incident. The novel intertwines elements of horror, suspense, and the supernatural, as Cory encounters various characters, including an ancient mystic and a violent clan of moonshiners. Through these experiences, he confronts the hidden secrets of his hometown, ultimately revealing the forces of good and evil that shape his reality.
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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…
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