Title: Now for something completely different
Product review: McCammon is known as a really good horror writer, but here he steps away from the horror for a novel about boyhood. Somehow he is able to step out of his own shoes for a bit and step into the shoes of an All-American kid. He captures boyhood perfectly in all its awkwardness, wonder, joy, and even terror. Some might say the book is written a bit piecemeal, but McCammon deftly holds the book together by keeping the initial thread intact while wandering here and there. This is not a middle grade reader--it's much lengthier than that, which makes me believe that McCammon wrote it for an older audience. I remember thinking that if I read the book to my grandson, I would leave out an occasional sentence or section just to keep things moving. But you will marvel at how well McCammon captures emotions we all felt as kids but didn't think anyone would be able to capture in words. And he does it very well.
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