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Raising Stony Mayhall

Gregory, Daryl (Book - - 2011)
Average Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
Raising Stony Mayhall


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Random House, Inc.

From award-winning author Daryl Gregory, whom Library Journal called “[a] bright new voice of the twenty-first century,” comes a new breed of zombie novel—a surprisingly funny, vividly frightening, and ultimately deeply moving story of self-discovery

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Random House, Inc.

From award-winning author Daryl Gregory, whom Library Journal called “[a] bright new voice of the twenty-first 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 that 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.



Baker & Taylor
A third novel by the Locus Award-winning author of The Devil's Alphabet is a wryly whimsical zombie tale in which a woman rescues a near-dead infant on the side of a frozen Iowa highway and brings him home, where her daughters dub him Stony for his gray complexion. Original.

Baker
& Taylor

After a zombie attack, Wanda Mayhall rescues a near-dead infant on the side of a frozen Iowa highway and decides to raise him without telling the authorities, but as the boy gets older he realizes that there are other living dead in the world like him.

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Imprint: New York - Ballantine Books
Pages: 422
ISBN: 9780345522375, 0345522370
Language: English
Notes: "Del Rey trade paperback original"--T.p. verso
Statement of responsibility: Daryl Gregory
Characteristics: xv, 422 p. ;,22 cm.
Author (Original Script): Gregory, Daryl
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Easy read, enjoyable. Little long winded in parts, but I mostly enjoyed the story and the characters were colorful. Not an all out gruesome fest more a story of family and acceptance

Jun 19, 2012
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  • kamkamtoo rated this: 4 stars out of 5.

Very good , engaging story who's characters grip you though you never get a ton of detail. Long history of a post-apocalyptic life. Discusses the large issues and struggles with right & wrong/good & evil as all good post-ap stories should do. Little draggy at the end but well worth reading for both YA and Adult Fiction.

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