The town
Prescott, Shaun2017
Book
The Town is magnetic, revealing the true depth of Australia: the good, the bad, and the captivatingly ugly.Community radio host Ciara receives dozens of unmarked cassette recordings every week and broadcasts them to a listenership of none. Ex-musician Tom drives an impractical bus that no one ever boards. Publican Jenny runs a hotel that has no patrons. Rick wanders the aisles of the Woolworths every day in an attempt to blunt the disappointment of adulthood. In a town of innumerable petrol stations, labyrinthine cul-de-sac streets, two competing shopping plazas, and ubiquitous drive-thru franchises, where are these people likely to find the truth about their collective past - and can they do so before the town completely disappears? Shaun Prescott's debut novel The Town follows an unnamed narrator's efforts to complete a book about disappeared towns in the Central West of New South Wales. Set in a yet-to-disappear town in the region-a town believed by its inhabitants to have no history at all-the novel traces its characters' attempts to carve their own identities in a place that is both unyielding and teetering on the edge of oblivion.
Main title:
The town / Shaun Prescott.
Author:
Prescott, Shaun, author
Work:
Imprint:
Melbourne, Vic. Brow Books, 2017.
Collation:
238 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
97809946068220994606826
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
328547