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02356aam a22003738i 4500 001 AB7D4214579C11EA884155F596128E48 003 SILO 005 20200225010124 008 190427t20202017nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019020328 020 $a 0374278520 020 $a 9780374278526 035 $a (OCoLC)1099538302 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d TP7 $d OCLCF $d UAP $d DAD $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a u-at--- 050 00 $a PR9619.4.P736 $b T69 2020 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Prescott, Shaun, $e author. 245 14 $a The town / $c Shaun Prescott. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2020. 300 $a 249 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Shrinking cities $z New South Wales $z New South Wales $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Shrinking cities $x Social aspects $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imperialism $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20200805012234.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200402010256.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB7D4214579C11EA884155F596128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search