THE LINE PAINTER: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12760006B05190

English Summary/英文概要： Fleeing guilt and grief over her recently deceased boyfriend, Carrie McDonald is on a cross-country road-trip when her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario. Stranded on the side of the road with a dead cell-phone battery and a steaming car, Carrie has no choice but to wait for her rescuer to drive by. Eventually, a slow-moving vehicle appears in the distance. Relieved at her good fortune, she soon becomes skeptical of the figure who emerges from the truck. For one thing, the steering wheel is on the wrong side, and the man himself is enough to make Carrie wary of the situation. Against her better judgment, however, Carrie gets into the truck, and so begins The Line Painter. Frank paints the lines on the side of the road. He is bad-tempered, drinks too much and is capable of violence, which Carrie soon discovers. Little did Carrie know that getting into Frank’s truck would begin the most harrowing few days of her life.
In Carrie, Claire Cameron has created a sheltered character who exudes charm and intelligence, but whose grief has impaired her judgment. In Frank, however, she has crafted a man who is capable of tenderness, but whose inner demons and violent past checker his personality. In trying to escape the past that led to her sudden road trip, Carrie becomes impulsive and learns to feel comfortable with Frank — until one, final violent confrontation that will affect Carrie forever.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 已售版權：加拿大：HarperCollins,
一部經典的汽車曲折旅行故事，《THE LINE PAINTER》探索了塵封往事，恐懼，和回憶是如何改變了我們對人生的感知

淩晨1:08，當Carrie的汽車在蘇必略湖北部的某處高速公路拋錨時。天色黑沉，路面寧靜，她的手機沒電了，而她孤身一人。她從多倫多出發的那天早上，想從男友的去世悲痛中逃離，她無法應對發生的事件背後的真相。讓Carrie感到寬慰的是，恐懼過後，很快地一輛卡車司機讓她搭了便車。Frank，她所謂的救星，是一位“生活畫家”，特意在這條線路上“阻止人們被殺”。但當Carrie坐進卡車後，她開始意識到這將是她的 —— 一場恐懼，轉變和寬恕的人生之旅。
Claire Cameron創作了獨特的Carrie，一個被悲傷和遺憾所驅使前進的年輕女士，她迷人的個性中夾雜著純真和狡黠。Frank也同樣有著鮮明的個性，他閃爍的智慧和破碎的心靈偽裝下的溫柔。作者用質樸的文風，襯托出加拿大北部令人生畏的風景。《The Line Painter》帶領我們領略，關於曲折人生回憶和救贖的動人故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：“《The Line Painter》以扣人心弦的懸念作為開篇。Cameron精湛的敘事散文是感人的和充滿活力的，以及她嫺熟地描繪了“貓”於“老鼠”之間危險的拉扯關係，是一部具有完美驚悚特質的小說。”—— TORONTOIST.COM
“需要作者一定的勇氣去展開這樣一段豐滿的故事領域；需要有顯著的才幹才能創作出如此熟悉而具新鮮感和獨創新穎的想像，提升了其不入俗流的陳詞濫調。在《The Line Painter》，作者的第一部小說，…… 多倫多作家Claire Cameron證明了她極富才華的寫作天賦……《The Line Painter》的開篇巧妙地均衡了懸疑和輕鬆的氛圍，遊弋于期盼於驚異之間，從而逐漸增加的緊張氣氛直至到一個讓人無法忍受的爆發點。用結構嚴謹的，分析的，極簡抽象的筆觸，Cameron敏銳地傳遞出，緊張的情勢下內在的張力，更為重要的是，建立在這一主題上的可讀性期望值……這是一次大膽的嘗試……故事主人公Carrie的一些行為是可怕的，但儘管如此人物性格相當豐滿。這是一個作家很難完成的高度，但Cameron卻處理的遊刃有餘。”—— 加拿大環球郵報
“The Line Painter begins with thrilling suspense. Cameron’s lean prose is accessible and dynamic, and she is skilled at portraying the risky push-pull relationship between "captor" and "captive," a characteristic of all good thrillers.”—TORONTOIST.COM
“It takes a certain amount of courage to tread such well-covered ground; it takes significant talent to make such a familiar conceit feel fresh and original, to lift it beyond the constraints of the cliché. In her debut novel The Line Painter…Toronto writer Claire Cameron demonstrates that she has both, in abundance. … The opening pages of The Line Painter are a masterful balancing act of suspense and relief, a dance between expectation and surprise that steadily increases the tension to an almost unbearable point. Writing in a tight, parsed, minimalist tone, Cameron acutely conveys the tension inherent in the situation and, more significantly, builds on readerly expectations with this motif. … It’s a bravura performance. … Some of Carrie’s actions are shocking, but nonetheless fully in character. That’s a difficult trick for a writer to pull off but Cameron manages it with aplomb.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL

An excellent half-hour TV interview:
http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/life-at-the-end-of-a-species

About the Author/作者介绍： CLAIRE CAMERON生於1973年，在多倫多長大。她在女皇大學研習歷史，而後在美國的俄勒岡州，作為一位教練，教授登山，攀岩和漂流的野外拓展訓練。1999年，她搬至倫敦，她創辦了Shift Media，一家客戶諮詢公司，服務的客戶包括英國廣播公司，麥格勞希爾集團和牛津大學出版社。Claire現在和他的丈夫和兒子住在多倫多。《The Line Painter》是她的第一部小說。
Born in 1973, Claire Cameron grew up in Toronto. She studied History and Culture at Queen’s University. She then worked as an instructor for Outward Bound, teaching mountaineering, climbing, and white-water rafting in Oregon. Next she worked in San Francisco for Pearson Plc before moving to London in 1999. There she was until recently director of Shift Media, a consultancy whose clients included the BBC, McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins, 2007

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