num_pages: 536
description: Don’t miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling award-winning author Robert McCammon, in a book that Publishers Weekly calls “both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue.”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 vision of death that will haunt him forever.As Cory struggles to understand his father’s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman 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: Michael Joseph