| Description |
238 pages ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Shrinking cities -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Shrinking cities -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Cooney, Sam, editor
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| ISBN |
0994606826 |
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9780994606822 |
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