· Bon and Lesley () Novel. The Town () Novel. Published in by Brow Books. Published Aug by Faber Faber. Published July 4, by Hayakawa in Japan. Published February by Koppernik in the Netherlands. Published February by FSG in US. Coming March by Literatura Random House in Spain. Coming September by Blumenbar in Germany. Shaun Prescott is a writer based in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. The author of The Town, he has self-released several small books of fiction, including Erica from Sales and The End of Trolleys, and has been the editor of Crawlspace Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Guardian, and Meanjin, among other venues/5(16). · Overview. "A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott’s The Town is a novel of a rural Australian community besieged by modern day anxieties and threatened by a supernatural force seeking to consume the dying town. This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The Town, the first novel by Australian author Shaun Prescott, hits this particular sweet spot, giving us a book that's both incredibly strange and incredibly gripping in equal measure. The novel starts with its unnamed narrator moving to a small Australian town, where he's stacking shelves at one of its many supermarkets and working on a. 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. 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.
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. Shaun Prescott Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($26) by Chris Barsanti. Like all writers who will never finish their book, the wandering artist who narrates Shaun Prescott’s bafflingly compelling debut novel The Town just cannot stop talking about the book he is writing. This is despite thin evidence that anybody else is even slightly interested in the project or that he has invested any true effort in its creation besides moving to the place he is ostensibly writing about. "A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott’s The Town is a novel of a rural Australian community besieged by modern day anxieties and threatened by a supernatural force seeking to consume the dying town.
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