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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: town
  name:
    name part: Prescott, Shaun
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Psychological fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 249 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "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 streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion, he finds something more sinister than economic depression: the ghost towns of Australia appear to be literally disappearing. An epidemic of mysterious holes is threatening his new home's very existence, and this discovery plunges the researcher into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never escape. Dark, slippery and unsettling, Shaun Prescott's debut resurrects the existential novel for the age of sprawl and blight, excavates a nation's buried history of colonial genocide, and tells a love story that asks if outsiders can ever truly belong anywhere. The result is a disquieting classic that vibrates with an occult power." --
  note: Shaun Prescott.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
    geographic code: u-at-ne
  subject:
    topic: Shrinking cities
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: New South Wales
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Shrinking cities
    topic: Social aspects
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
  subject:
    topic: Shrinking cities
  subject:
    geographic: New South Wales
  classification: PR9619.4.P736 T69 2020
  classification: 823/.92
  identifier: 9780374278526
  identifier: 0374278520
  identifier: 2019020328
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190427
    record change date: 20250318214113.6
    record identifier: in00004115529
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng