SKETCHER

Book ID/图书代码： 00410313B60034

English Summary/英文概要： Nine-year-old “Skid” Beaumont’s family is stuck in the mud. Following his father’s decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the Seventies’ oil boom, Skid and his brothers grow up in a swampy area of Louisiana. But the constructions stop short, the dream fizzles out, and the Beaumonts find themselves sinking in a soggy corner of 1980s Cold War America. As things on the home front get more complicated, Skid learns of his mother’s alleged magic powers and vaguely remembers some eerie stories surrounding his elder brother Frico.

These, as well as early events that Skid saw with his own eyes, convince him that Frico has a gift to fix things by simply sketching them. For the next few years, Skid’s self-appointed mission to convince his brother to join him in his lofty plan to change their family’s luck and the world they live in will lead to even more mystery and high drama in the swamp. Atmospheric, uplifting and deeply moving, Sketcher – Roland Watson-Grant’s stunning debut – is a novel about the beauty of life no matter how broken it is.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 9岁的Skid Beaumont的家庭陷入泥潭。之后，他的父亲决定搬迁并建立一个新的家。基于一个喝醉酒的眼光，因为七十年代石油的繁荣，新奥尔良将迅速向东扩大到湿地，Skid和他的兄弟们在路易斯安那州的一个沼泽区长大。但建筑突然停止，梦想失败了。Beaumont一家发现自己沉没在20世纪80年代冷战时期美国的一个潮湿的角落。当国内事情变得越发复杂，Skid得知他母亲所谓的魔力，依稀记得一些关于他哥哥FRICO的怪异的故事。

这些以及Skid用自己眼睛看到的早期事件，说服他 FRICO有通过简单描述事物来解决事情的天赋。在接下来的几年里，Skid自封的使命是说服他的兄弟加入改变他们家族命运和因在湿地而变得更加神秘和戏剧化的他们生活的世界的远大计划。大气的，令人振奋的和极度感人的《草绘》——Roland Watson的惊人的处女作，这是一部关于生活的美好的小说，无论生活如何破碎。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：review of Sketcher in the Spectator by Ian Thomson

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/8944611/vauxhall-by-gabriel-ghadomosi-sketcher-by-roland-watson-grant-review/

"Well, hats off to Alma Books, because they’ve come up with a novel for teenagers which is so surprising, so defiantly odd and so linguistically quirky, it goes against every trend." - The Tablet

"A wonderfully joyous, eccentric first novel." The Times

"A witty Mark Twain-like diversion that tells of superstition and mojo-conjuring among the swamp folk of the Bayou during the Reaganite 1980s." The Spectator

"Part rambunctious tale of adolescence and part voodoo ghost story… a richly textured evocation of life in the Bayou, lush with fruitful descriptions and the tall tales of folklore." The Literary Review

"If the broken parts of life cannot always be mended, most of it is still more than good enough, in these rollicking chronicles from the sticky side of Louisiana." The Independent

"You can almost feel the swamp sweating off the page throughout Grant’s brilliantly atmospheric and occasionally grotesque coming-of-age tale." Bath Life Magazine, Nic Bottomley (Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights Bookshop)

"A funny, sad, atmospheric novel... Captivating and characterful." The Sunday Times

"Funny, heartfelt and beguiling debut... The core strength of Sketcher is Skid’s first-person account, told in colloquial Louisiana dialect. He is a funny and sharp observer, a bit of a wise-arse - part Scout Finch, part Huck Finn, part Bart Simpson - yet capable of stunning lyricism" The Bookseller

"A child’s view on getting the most out of a broken life. This heart-warming story is all you need to make you smile." Teen Titles Magazine

About the Author/作者介绍： Roland Watson-Grant出生在牙买加金斯敦，西印度群岛大学的前任英语教师，研究文学。他现在是广告创意总监。《草绘》是他的第一部小说。

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Roland Watson-Grant, a former teacher of English, studied Literature at the University of the West Indies. He now works in advertising as Creative Director. Sketcher is his first novel.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：GeoTurka in Turkey
SIRUELA in Spain.

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