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“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

“THIS SUPERBLY TOLD TALE COMBINES THE SENSIBILITIES OF MARK TWAIN, FLANNERY
O’CONNOR AND STEVEN SPIELBERG—SHIFTING FROM THE MORAL TO THE MAGICAL, AND ALL
THE WHILE SUCCEEDING AS A SOLID COMING-OF-AGE STORY AND A FINE MYSTERY…
FORTUNATELY, McCAMMON HAS NOT… HAD THE MAGIC TAKEN OUT OF HIM, ALLOWING US TO
WILLINGLY, AND HAPPILY, SUSPEND OUR DISBELIEF AND DEVOUR THIS BOUNTIFUL BOOK.”
—Newsday

“McCAMMON CAPTURES THE JOYS AND FEARS OF LATE CHILDHOOD WITH SURE STROKES,
ABLY CONVEYING HIS LOVE FOR THE TIME, THE PLACE AND ALL THE ATTENDANT FORMS OF
POP CULTURE: MONSTER MOVIES, COMIC BOOKS, ROADSIDE CARNIVALS AND BASEBALL.
INDIVIDUAL EPISODES RESONATE WITH WONDER, HUMOR AND TRAGEDY… AS AN AFFECTING
PAEAN TO THE MAGICAL POSSIBILITIES OF BOYHOOD… THE NOVEL WORKS EXCEEDINGLY
WELL.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“BOY’S LIFE IS CERTAINLY UNLIKE ANY OF McCAMMON’S OTHER NOVELS, AND IS EASILY
HIS BEST TO DATE, DISPLAYING A RANGE THAT IS ASTONISHING. A TOUR DE FORCE OF
STORY-TELLING, IT IS A POWERFUL STORY ABOUT THE MAGIC INHERENT IN EVERYDAY