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  • Published: 26 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742746548
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Americans, Baby




A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigour.

A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigour.

In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultural intrusions and the risks that those from a great powerful land such as the US take when they meddle in another culture (they can be snared, seduced, destroyed) are explored with traditional Moorhouse flair and wit.

These stories are timeless in their concerns, and explore ideology, idealism, conflict, relationships and sex.

  • Published: 26 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742746548
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

About the author

Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in 1970s became a full-time writer. He won national prizes for his fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He was best known for the highly acclaimed Edith trilogy, Grand Days, Dark Palace, and Cold Light, novels which follow the career of an Australian woman in the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s through to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s as she struggled to become a diplomat. His last book The Drover’s Wifea reading adventure published in October 2017, brings together works inspired by Henry Lawson’s story and examines the attachment Australia has to the story and to Russell Drysdale’s painting of the same name. Frank was awarded a number of fellowships including writer in residence at King’s College Cambridge, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney, 2015. Frank Moorhouse died, in Sydney, on 26 June 2022.

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Praise for The Americans, Baby

....emerging as consistently the best writer of stories about contemporary Australian life...

The Australian

The material is deeply Australian...it is treated with the rueful truth of art...

The New Yorker
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