num_pages: 840
description: In me are the memories of a boy's life, spent in that realm of enchantments. These are the things I want to tell you.... Robert McCammon delivers "a tour de force of storytelling" ( BookPage ) in his 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....
language: English
title: Boy's Life
titlecomplete: Boy's Life
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 33493
places: Alabama, Zephyr, Alabama
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞
category: Best Translated Novel
publisher: Pocket Books