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…

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624 pages

Average rating: 8.44

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YvetteF
Jun 12, 2024
2/10 stars
DNF @ 14%. My friend LJ says this is one of her favorite books. As for me, I find myself completely uninterested in this one. Maybe I haven’t listened to it long enough. I don’t know what’s going on but I’m completely bored with it.
bugiguy
Dec 17, 2022
9/10 stars
A wonderful slice of life, with a little a childhood magic sprinkled in.
Snoe of Lorien
Aug 13, 2020
9/10 stars
One of my favorite authors and books. Coming of age, in a small southern town in the 60's and many weird happenings surrounding a mysterious murder.

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