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The American Poet's Visit single work   short story   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 The American Poet's Visit
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 28 no. 4 1968 Z597331 1968 periodical issue 1968 pg. 275-285
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Most Beautiful Lies : A Collection of Stories by Five Major Contemporary Fiction Writers: Bail, Carey, Lurie, Moorhouse and Wilding Brian Kiernan (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1977 Z525281 1977 anthology short story humour satire science fiction Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1977 pg. 152-163
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Americans, Baby : A Discontinuous Narrative of Stories and Fragments Frank Moorhouse , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1972 Z396953 1972 selected work short story

    A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigor. 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.(Source: Google Books website).

    North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1988
    pg. 63-76
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