Sketcher

Sketcher

Roland Watson-Grant
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Author:  Roland Watson-Grant
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  288
Publisher:  Alma Books Ltd
Year:  2013
ISBN:  9781846882425

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...