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“WE ALL START OUT KNOWING MAGIC…
BUT THEN WE GET THE MAGIC
EDUCATED RIGHT OUT OF OUR SOULS.”
—Robert R. McCammon

“AN EXUBERANT CELEBRATION OF
CHILDHOOD MYSTERY AND
MARVEL… BY FAR McCAMMON’S
FINEST BOOK.”
—Kirkus Reviews


“BOY’S LIFE IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. IT RECAPTURES
THE MAGIC OF BEING A CHILD IN A WORLD OF
POSSIBILITIES AND PROMISE. IT IS ABOUT BEING BORN
‘WITH WHIRLWINDS, FOREST FIRES AND COMETS INSIDE
US,’ AND IT REMINDS US OF A MAGICAL TIME BEFORE
THE MAGIC WAS ‘CHURCHED OUT, SPANKED OUT,
WASHED OUT, AND COMBED OUT.’ BOY’S LIFE IS FOR
THE BOYS—AND GIRLS—IN ALL OF US.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Robert R. McCammon captivated millions of readers with his storytelling power in such bestsellers as Mine, Swan Song and Stinger. Now he has created his tour de force: BOY’S LIFE, a masterpiece of magic and mystery, of the splendors of growing up in a small town, and of the wonders beyond. Narrated by one of the most engaging young voices in modern fiction, BOY’S LIFE takes us back to our own childhoods, when bicycles were enchanted steeds and anything was possible…

Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson… a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever. Then, on a cold spring morning in 1964, as Cory accompanies his father on his milk route, they see a car plunge into a lake some say is bottomless. A desperate rescue attempt brings Cory’s father face-to-face with a vision that will haunt him: a murdered man, naked and beaten, handcuffed to the steering wheel, a copper wire knotted around his neck. As Cory struggles to understand the forces of good and evil at work in his hometown, from an ancient woman called the Lady who conjures snakes and hears the voices of the dead, to a violent clan of moonshiners, he realizes that not only his life but his father’s sanity may hang in the balance…

“IT’S McCAMMON’S THE PRINCE OF TIDES…
INCREDIBLY MOVING.”—Peter Straub

A Literary Guild Main Selection



Critical Acclaim for
Robert R. McCammon’s


“BOY’S LIFE IS REALLY JUST GORGEOUS—IT’S McCAMMON’S THE PRINCE OF TIDES… INCREDIBLY MOVING—BOYHOOD AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, RECOLLECTED IN GENUINE AND GENEROUS DETAIL. I LOVED IT, AND I WANT MY SON TO READ IT, TOO.”
—Peter Straub

“ENTHRALLING… Midway through BOY’S LIFE, the young hero learns of a book ‘about [a] town and the people in it… maybe there wasn’t a real plot to it… but the book was about life… [it] was sweet and deep and left you wishing for more.’ That’s a perfect description of McCammon’s fictional autobiography as well, an exuberant celebration of childhood mystery and marvel… McCammon paints with a score of bull’s-eye details… BOY’S LIFE is teeming with smartly realized characters… A CORNUCOPIA OF BITTERSWEET FANTASY STORYTELLING THAT IS BY FAR McCAMMON’S FINEST BOOK.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“BOY’S LIFE, THE FIRST ‘MAINSTREAM’ NOVEL FROM ROBERT R. McCAMMON, IS A WONDERFUL STORY OF POWERFUL EMOTIONS, MARVELOUS IMAGES AND INVENTIVE NARRATIVE… FILLED WITH ENOUGH ADVENTURE, JOY, DISCOVERY AND HEARTACHE FOR A DOZEN BOYS’ LIFETIMES.”
—Houston Chronicle

“FOR SHEER SCREWBALL STORYTELLING EXUBERANCE, McCAMMON’S BOOK IS HARD TO TOP. There will be times when most adults will find themselves faintly embarrassed to be gobbling the thing like hot buttered popcorn, but gobble they will all the same… Not one to husband his narrative energies, McCammon writes here as if he had several lives to squander, weaving together… enough plots and subplots to fill a half-dozen ordinary novels.”
—Entertainment Weekly