Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

From award-winning author Daryl Gregory, whom Library Journal called a] bright new voice of the 21st century, comes a new breed of zombie novel a surprisingly funny, vividly frightening, and ultimately deeply moving story of self-discovery and family love.

In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman's arms is a baby stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda, and he begins to move. The family hides the child whom they name Stony rather than turn him over to authorities who would destroy him.

Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years, his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a secret until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run, and he learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.

Daryl Gregory's first novel, Pandemonium, was published in 2008 and won the 2009 Crawford Award, given each year by critics and scholars of the fantasy field to an oustanding new fantasy writer whose first book was published the previous year. The book was also a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the Mythopoeic Award for best fantasy adult novel. Gregory's short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, several year's-best anthologies, and other fine venues. In 2005 Gregory recieved the Asimov's Readers' Award for the novelette Second Person, Present Tense. He lives with his wife and two children in State College, Pennsylvania, where he writes both fiction and web code.

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ISBN 13	9780345522375
ISBN 10	0345522370
Title	Raising Stony Mayhall
Author	Daryl Gregory
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-06-28
Number of pages	448
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