Cory Mackenson is twelve years old, lives in Alabama and likes to tell stories. Dramaturgy, Details, dialogues: all this he does so in an accomplished form, that his friends are hell bent on anecdotes, which he shakes out of his Sleeve. Now, some of the narrator to maintain an extremely relaxed relationship to unheard-of events, the spring completely to your imagination, the effect of the Story but on the jumps to help. This also applies for fictional characters. Cory is not under strong suspicion, constantly on the Arsenal of his Imagination, to have access, properly transfer he makes, however.
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F. A. Z.The Boy everyday life in the imaginary Village of Zephyr in 1964, and suddenly cross the path of ghosts describes his path that developed his bike a life of its own, helps a little Voodoo in the solution of a murder case. Whether that happens alone in his head or actually part of the narrated world, remains pleasingly uncertain. Corys would be a six-hundred-page chronicle called "Boy's Life" is a Film, it would be to have the Label of "Popcorn cinema".
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Robert McCammon, published the novel in the United States in 1991, was one from the late seventies until the early nineties of the most important authors of horror literature. In "Boy's Life" he shows not only that he can summon with a few short sentences, vivid shock scenes up – for example, if a totgefahrener dog slowly transformed into a Zombie, but also that of all the genres and Register are. Coming-of-Age, Comedy, Mystery, and realism: Not many authors can conching such a Potpourri to artistic Delicatessen. Nevertheless, hardly anyone will remember that in this country in 2004 for the first time under the title "innocence and evil", published in the book.
Over long distances McCammon to turn to the Genre-screw; rather, he strings episodes together, the narrative result in any economic sense, but nevertheless a viable Mood structure omitted. In the centre of a number of passages that magical What is the cost of sparkles-the-world-feeling, which Cory and his friends as well as the Teenager in the novels of Stephen King.
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is portrays As a sinister counterweight McCammon, as the black population in a separated district to and from the Ku Klux Klan terrorized. Not to forget the murder: Cory and his father Tom to milk and watch as a car with a full throttle crash into a lake. Tom stops and jumps after it. At the wheel a man with the beaten face to a pulp sits slit the throat of a copper wire. With this experience, father and son have to fight now. Tom is haunted by nightmares, Cory tried to the fact, to educate.
he encounters the Western hero, quirky village of family, Nazis, mobbende classmates and a pastor who uses his Church services to satanic messages in the Beach Boys Song "I Get Around" track. This archetypal expiry figures to fit at the time of the change, which gives the book a melancholy tone: "In the news, the talk was always of a country, the Vietnam was. In the cities, riots broke out as skirmishes in a unofficial war. A vague, foreboding spread in the country, while we approached the plastic age of disposable consumption.“
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