We do not give, share, or sell ANY of our customer information with anyone! McCammon's Boy's Life, but the book, Laymon's best in years, belongs wholly to this too-neglected author, who with his trademark squeaky-clean yet sensual prose, high narrative drive and pitch-dark sense of humor has crafted a horror tale that's not only emotionally true but also scary and, above all, fun.We can send you an e-mail as soon as this item is back in stock In its understanding of the sufferings and ecstasies of youth, the novel carries some of the wisdom of King's The Body or Robert R. The novel's climax is the show itself, and here Laymon lets out the stops in typically ferocious fashion. Unusual for Laymon, the emphasis is on atmosphere rather than action, and he sustains a note of anticipatory dread throughout, made particularly resonant through his expert handling of the social, particularly sexual, tensions among the three teens. This, plus a long buildup to the show (spinning on whether troupe members are after the teens) forms most of the long narrative. Intrigued, the trio sneak onto the backwoods site of the show and there tangle with a vicious dog after the others leave, Slim watches the spooky show troupe spear the mongrel to death. It's hot August 1963 when narrator Dwight, along with his pals-overweight Rusty and pretty (female) Slim-note flyers for the Traveling Vampire Show, featuring a purported real vampire, Valeria. Here, Laymon takes those elements in hand, not so much abjuring them as putting them to artful use as he tells a wickedly involving story of three 16-year-olds and their life-changing encounter with the road show of the title.
The author's fall after his successful run in the 1980s was due to several factors, including his writerly predilection toward excess sex and violence. Like the vampire he celebrates so often (Stake, etc.), this talented writer's career, once dead in the States though not overseas, has risen anew-thanks largely to Cemetery Dance, which has issued his work (Cuts Come Out Tonight etc.) even as no mainstream American hardcover publisher would touch it.
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