Description: "A bizarre novel--A seance for Kafka, Walser and Calvino. Shaun Prescott has written an ominous work of absurdity." --Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody is Ever Missing and The Answers " The Town moves with a gentle command amid the obvious reference points of Calvino, Kafka and Ave, but it also invokes the less-celebrated novels of Steve Erickson and Rex Warner. Like them, Prescott seeks the universal in a meticulous paraphrase of the here and now, and finds the dislocation hiding in locality to show us just how lost we really may be." --Jonathan Letham, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude " The Town really got under my skin. There's a deceptive lightness to Prescott's style, so this is a book that creeps up on the reader: all of a sudden you're swept away by, even bound to, this thing that's so mournful, intense and unsettling. It will stay with me." --Lisa McInerney, author of The Blood Miracles "Shaun Prescott's debut novel is a dense singularity, an exploration of the idea of nowhere as the centre of the world, and a stark paean to loneliness, entropy and marginal existence--sustained by the kind of slow, luminous prose that feels like the equivalent of staring straight into the sun." --David Keenan, author of England's Hidden Reverse "A gentle, if gnawing, safari of the existential dread on which Australia is built." -- The Saturday Paper (Australia)

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