Boy's Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416577782)

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
ISBN-10: 1416577785
ISBN-13: 9781416577782
Publisher: Gallery Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.34w x 1.71d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 30
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 45543 / Boy's Life