TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prescott,Shaun
AU  - Cooney,Sam
TI  - The town
SN  - 9780994606822
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Melbourne, Vic.
PB  - Brow Books
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Shrinking cities
KW  - Australia
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Australian
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
N2  - 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
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