Robert McCammon delivers a tour de force of storytelling (BookPage) in this 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 youngand of innocence lost.

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackensona 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 lakeand 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 hometownfor his fathers sanity and his own life hang in the balance