Boys Life by Robert McCammon
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In me are the memories of a boys 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.Boys 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 fathers 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 fathers sanity and his own life hang in the
balance....
Personal Review: Boys Life by Robert McCammon
I just completed Boy's Life and I was very impressed, with the elegance
that McCammon put this semi-autobiographical novel. Again like Swan's
Song versus The Stand, Boys Life is like The Body or to most the film
basis for Stand By Me. Boy's life however goes much further and adds that
feeling of magical times as a kid, riding dirt trails with your friends, dealing
with the town bully, the bitchy teacher in grammer school, and just the
general feeling of socialness that people showed in a Tupper Party or
Avon way back in the 50's, 60's and 70's. This was a beautifully written
novel, and one I CAN'T believe isn't a film. I would love to this story on the
big screen, it will be one to be remembered.
In a nut shell it is the story of a boy in a year of his life, it starts off with a
murder mystery and along the way we are shown vingettes of Cory's life
and his interaction with the local towns folk. This novel has it all, the local
color describing the smells, tastes, feel and mannerism of people from a
time long ago. It has Gunslingers, a Lochness Monster, murder, adventure,
mystery, family loves and spirit. And in the end we find out who the killer is
and why they did it, how can you go wrong. Many people will think the
novel has a loose plot and in many ways it does, but don't force it, just let it
guide you and just follow along you will be happy in the end. McCammon
is one of the nicest writers I know of, his words flow from the page with
such fluidity. Read this book, I will recommend it to people.
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