Cirrus@Austlit

'Award winning stories and verse in the Lawson tradition from the Greenfell Henry Lawson Festival 1960-1981 collected and edited by Hilarie Lindsay.

'The anthology brings together thirty-seven of Australia's best known writers. Each piece of work won a statuette and was judged the best of its year in the Grenfell Henry Lawson competitions for prose and verse over the past twenty-one years.

'The stories range over many levels of Australian Society. All are told with a rare insight into humans nature, with compassion and humour, by such master craftsmen as Gwen Kelly, Frank Moorehouse, James MacQueen and others' (Publication summary)

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).