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Title:
The Town (MP3)
Written by:
Shaun Prescott 
Read by:
Tim Potter 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
6 hours 30 minutes 
MP3 size:
281 MB 
Published:
November 28 2018 
Available Date:
November 28 2018 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489466068 
Genres:
Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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With this long-awaited and utterly unique debut novel, Shaun Prescott announces himself as a compelling new voice. 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.

'This novel signals its author as someone who understands what literature is for. It is one of the strongest and strangest contemporary Australian novels I've seen ...'
The Age

'... a deep dive into weirdness that reads like a blend of Donald Horne and García Márquez ... a gentle, if gnawing, safari of the existential dread on which Australia is built.'
The Saturday Paper

'The Town really got under my skin. There's a deceptive lightness to Shaun Prescott's style, and so this is a book that really creeps up on [you]; all of a sudden you're swept away by, even bound to this thing that's so mournful, intense and unsettling. It will stay with me.'
Lisa McInerney, author of The Blood Miracles