Sketcher - Softcover

Watson-Grant, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846882427 ISBN 13: 9781846882425

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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…

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846882427
• ISBN 13: 9781846882425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288