The town shaun prescott

The town 2017 novel published in 2017 by brow books. Fsg, the first novel by shaun prescott, takes place in new south wales, a region of prescotts native australia that was once home to the wiradjuri people. This is australia, an unnamed, deadend town in the heart of the outback. Robert barry met up with him to talk ghost towns, erased pasts, and strange weird beautiful repugnant australian music.

It is a site that refutes specificity, character, and indeed meaning itself. The most important one, the writing of which takes up the bulk of prescott s novel, is a nonfiction account of disappearing towns around the central west of new south wales. The town by shaun prescott was a really unique read it felt like an ode to small towns across australia, while specifically looking at the idea of disappearing towns in nsw. Woke to the past, shaun prescotts the town moves beyond. The unnamed town at the heart of shaun prescotts debut novel is a nondescript place, filled with shopping malls and petrol stations, supermarkets and parking lots. Aug 01, 2017 shaun prescotts debut novel the town follows an unnamed narrators efforts to complete a book about disappeared towns in the central west of new south wales. In the town, by debut novelist shaun prescott, a white australian male writer takes a nonheroic journey into a colonised landscape. Shaun prescotts debut novel shares obvious conceptual territory with the fiction of franz kafka and gerald murnane, both of whom are mentioned in its. Shaun prescotts debut novel the town follows an unnamed narrators efforts to complete a book about disappeared towns in the central west of new south wales. Aug 16, 2018 the town is perhaps an allegorical mirror reflecting the evils of ignorance and xenophobia that lurk in all humans, everywhere, and the fragility of existence. The town by shaun prescott politics and prose bookstore. A powerfully doomy debut the guardian, shaun prescotts 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.

Shaun prescott s artistic license in his writing approach, although well written, created an unfriendly reader experience that likely will not appeal to many readers and will definitely discourage most. His is a microcosmic australia reduced to a town so drab it has no name, to which a young budding writer, also nameless, moves to write a factual book about the disappearing towns of the central west of new south wales. The united kingdoms colonial campaign in the region erupted into war by 1824, which led to famine among the wiradjuri, as well as to the destruction of many of. Shaun prescotts the town is the best australian book you. Set in 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. Set in a yettodisappear town in the regiona town believed by its inhabitants to have no history at allthe novel traces its characters attempts to carve their own identities. Had i not committed myself to reading the entire work.

Look out for the town by shaun prescott this is horror. The town by shaun prescott paperback book for sale online ebay. When i finished reading shaun prescotts debut novel the town i was naturally curious about the author, whose book jacket biography is unusually brief. Jul 25, 2017 the town, the first novel by australian author shaun prescott, hits this particular sweet spot, giving us a book thats both incredibly strange and incredibly gripping in equal measure. Never breaking its lowkey, reflective tone, the novel is narrated by an unnamed writer researching a book about the disappearing towns of new south wales, australia.

I wish new authors would consider readers before focusing on experimental writing fiats. The novel starts with its unnamed narrator moving to a small australian town, where hes stacking shelves at one of its many supermarkets and working on a. The town is not the kind of writing that invests in the aesthetic luxury of its individual. The town by shaun prescott english paperback book free shipping. With this longawaited and utterly unique debut novel, shaun prescott announces himself as a compelling new voice. Its retro, matte cover and colour palette has the feel of a cult classic at the back of a second hand store, but its content is modern australian myth making. Everyone was certain of it, though it had been a long time since. The town by shaun prescott depicts disappearing act. Community radio host ciara receives dozens of unmarked cassette recordings. Set in a yettodisappear town in the regiona town believed by its inhabitants to have no history at allthe novel traces its characters attempts to carve their own identities in a place that is both unyielding and teetering on the. At the town of prescott special council meeting of may 4, 2020, council approved the opening of the prescott boat launch effective may 8, 2020.

Shaun prescotts debut novel, the town, has been compared to kafka, italo calvino, and kobo abe. Shaun prescotts eminently strange novel, the town, begins by rejecting outright any sense of place. Jul 26, 2017 this piece is an excerpt from the town, published by brow books. The most important one, the writing of which takes up the bulk of prescotts novel, is a nonfiction account of disappearing towns around the central west of new south wales. Shaun prescott is a writer based in the blue mountains in new south wales. The author of the town, he has selfreleased several small books of fiction, including erica from sales and the end of trolleys, and has been the editor of crawlspace magazine. Prescotts favorite writer is kafka, so any echo of the trial or the castle in his title is likely deliberate, as is the plots philisophical blend of the mundane and the surreal. Robert barry met up with him to talk ghost towns, erased pasts. His writing has appeared in the lifted brow, the guardian, and meanjin, among other venues. We follow a male narrator who is writing a book about disappearing towns, and is spending time in one to get to know the community and use his observations to inform his. Aug 16, 2018 the unnamed town at the heart of shaun prescotts debut novel is a nondescript place, filled with shopping malls and petrol stations, supermarkets and parking lots.

Shaun prescott builds an idiosyncratic vision that is simultaneously banal and powerfully moving. Sep 26, 2017 shaun prescotts the town is full of such impossible books. The openair burn ban has also been lifted effective may 8, 2020. You can purchase a copy of the town by clicking here and at all good bookstores shaun prescott is a writer based in the blue mountains in new south wales. Shaun prescotts oddly moving debut the town stretches such themes of escape, flight and identity into new shapes. Mindbending, often hilarious, and sometimes heartwrenchingly sad, the townis one of the most original and exhilarating australian novels ive ever read. Published february 2020 by koppernik in the netherlands. Coming march 2020 by literatura random house in spain. Theres a deceptive lightness to shaun prescott s style, and so this is a book. An interview with author shaun prescott robert barry, september 22nd, 2018 10. All openair burning will be strictly enforced with zero tolerance for violations of the town of prescott openair burning bylaw 11. Mar 29, 2019 these thoughts were close to my mind when i first read shaun prescotts debut novel the town, which delves deep into this ongoing battle in the white australian psyche. Shaun prescott s the town is full of such impossible books.

Neighbourhood paper marginalia shaun prescotts the town. Praise for shaun prescotts the town the lifted brow. Nov 06, 2019 in the town, by debut novelist shaun prescott, a white australian male writer takes a nonheroic journey into a colonised landscape. Oct 30, 2017 shaun prescotts the town is an examination of futility and avoidance, of the dangers of defining ourselves by what we are not. Set in a yettodisappear 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. It concerns a wannabe writer who has taken up residence in a desolate town in the australian outback, with the intent to write a book on what he calls the disappearing towns of the region.