{"product_id":"the-town","title":"The Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCommunity 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaun 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr Shaun Prescott","offers":[{"title":"Very good","offer_id":49191273463998,"sku":"9780994606822V","price":14.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Fair","offer_id":49191273496766,"sku":"9780994606822F","price":13.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Well read","offer_id":49191273529534,"sku":"9780994606822W","price":12.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/2283\/4851\/files\/2790043482542.jpg?v=1790739760","url":"https:\/\/www.babelbooks.com.au\/products\/the-town","provider":"BabelBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}