Boy's Life

Synopsis

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.