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Book SynopsisTown-boy meets Square-boy. The inner-city meets the suburbs. Town is an exploration of the conflicting mentalities of the country and the city. It''s a compelling tale of love, ambition and class. It''s a study in English suburban misery and an indictment of a divisive education system. It''s an epic poem about failure in loving, failure in living.
courageous, exciting and challenging - Adrian Mitchell
a dark work which unflinchingly confronts the threat to our essential humanity posed by the society in which we live. Dent''s language crackles with the rugged energy of the Anglo-Saxon scop, his unrhymed and largely unpunctuated verse heavily alliterative, dense and powerful... In our sound-bite culture, it is refreshing to read such a passionate, committed, yet controlled epic. - Oz Hardwick, Aesthetica
brave, unflinching and true - Fred Voss
the voice of the concerned man adrift a hostile world - Jim Burns
subtle intelligence in every line... every word counts - John Murray
risk-taking excitement, with a sense of verbal energy - Alexis Lykiard
