A Town Like Alice (miniseries) Emmy Award for drama in 1981 and won a Logie Award in the "Best Single Drama or Mini Series" category at the 1982 awards with Morse, Brown and Jackson winning Logies for their performances. A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It
The Town (Faulkner novel) in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in "The Town" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of