- Title:
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The Town (MP3)
- Written by:
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Shaun Prescott
- Read by:
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Tim Potter
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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6 hours 30 minutes
- MP3 size:
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281 MB
- Published:
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November 28 2018
- Available Date:
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November 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489466105
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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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.
But there had been a war. Everyone was certain of it, though it had been a long time since.
This is Australia: an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback. A young writer arrives in New South Wales to research local settlements that are slowly vanishing into oblivion – but he didn't expect these ghost towns to literally disappear before his eyes. When an epidemic of mysterious holes threatens the town's existence, he is plunged into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never recover.
Dark, slippery and unsettling, Shaun Prescott's debut novel achieves many things. It resurrects the existentialist novel; excavates a nation's buried history of colonial genocide; and tells a love story that asks if outsiders can ever truly belong. Through a glass darkly, The Town examines the shadowy underbelly of Australian identity – and the result is a future classic.
'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