Boy's Life

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FICTION
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 e;leven-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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FICTION
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 e;leven-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 bewiteh the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that -hide in the shadows of his hometown—for hi« father's sanity and his own life hang in the balance. . . .
"Wonderful . . . filled with enough adventures, joy, discovery, and heartache for a dozen boys' lifetimes." —Houston Chronicle
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"No one can paint word pictures as vividly as Robert McCammon."
—Sandra Brown

ROBERT McCAMMON is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels. There are more than four million copies of his books in print. Visit his website: www.robertmccammon.com. Vissza