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. <br>Boy's Life is a richly imagined spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young -- and of innocence lost. <br>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 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 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....