The Town

The Town

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571345618
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Weight: 386g
Height: 144mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 24mm