Boys Life, Robert McCammon
Boys Life, Robert McCammon
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Boy's Life

Author: Robert McCammon

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 20 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling award winning author Robert McCammon, a novel 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.

About Robert McCammon

Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of Boy’s Life and Gone South, among many critically acclaimed works of fiction, with millions of copies of his novels in print. He is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, the Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention, and is a World Fantasy Award winner. He lives in Alabama. Visit the author at RobertMcCammon.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on February 17, 2025

A totally magnificent coming-of-age standalone. Fantasy and sci-fi will always be my favorite genres to read. I’m not ashamed to say that I haven’t read a lot of novels outside SFF; mainly because I found the popular and highly acclaimed non-SFF books that I've read so far to be mostly disappointing......more

Goodreads review by Mort on June 17, 2023

EDIT: I think enough time has passed to confidently say that this is the best book I have ever read in my life - my pick for if I am stranded alone on an island with only one book. I have neither the words nor the talent to adequately describe what this book did to me. It should be on your bucket lis......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on March 07, 2018

You know, it's a weighty thing when you've read as many books as I have over my 41 years of life and you finish a book that becomes your new favorite of all time. I never thought I'd read anything that impressed me as much as a Stephen King book. I mean, for a long time Salem's Lot was the gold stand......more

Goodreads review by Baba on January 16, 2022

A beautifully written account of a boy's life through the lens of the narrator looking back to the past. An intriguing and compelling mystery holds the book together; the recollecting starts with a father, and son Cory (the narrator), finding a tortured murdered victim; we get to to look back the en......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 12, 2017

This was a very good book with two main plot lines and a separate smaller plot in almost every chapter. It reminded me of, and I have read this comparison elsewhere as well, Different Seasons era Stephen King. One of the great things about this book is that it perfectly embodies pre-pubecent innocenc......more