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Revolutionary Baby: Strange Tales from the Twentieth Century
Revolutionary Baby: Strange Tales from the Twentieth Century
Revolutionary Baby: Strange Tales from the Twentieth Century
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Revolutionary Baby is a collection of original stories exploring the fears and struggles of ordinary people touched in different ways by the revolutions that made our century. Here are tales of self-discovery and the search for freedom haunted by the presence of uneasy loves.

  • Andrea, a pregnant feminist, defies her husband and gives birth at a chaotic anti-Vietnam War rally while he is drinking with a new mate at the seaside. He thought he might leave her but now his fate is sealed.
  • A bachelor farmer rejects a possible bride when he discovers her alarming secret.
  • A short man seeks to grow taller but encounters a life-altering situation that no one, least of all him, could have expected.
  • On a rural commune an exile from the Party ponders his political legacy but never dreams that his children will take his life's work to the tip.
  • Thousands throng the streets of Bangkok, hoping for a revolution but settling for 30% democracy.
  • Louisa, a wealthy Sydney widow, longs for a new man and decides she needs cosmetic surgery in Thailand. A random act of violence leads to a surprising new way of life.

These unnerving stories describe personal and political change, disappointment, ingenuity, and hope, as the twentieth century fades into memory and post-modern turmoil takes the stage. Revolutionary Baby: Strange Tales from the Twentieth Century will surprise, entertain and sometimes shock.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 14, 2023
ISBN9780995363335
Revolutionary Baby: Strange Tales from the Twentieth Century
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Annette Hamilton

Born in Sydney, Australia, Annette lived in remote First Nations communities in north and central Australia in the 1970s. Later she researched media, film and art in Southeast Asia. In recent years she has been pursuing her passion for writing and painting. She writes children’s stories, short stories, novels and memoirs. She loves wild creatures and the natural world, and lives between the city and the bush close to Sydney.

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