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THE AUSTRALIAN. Copyright © 2017, text by Emma Smith-Stevens. All rights reserved, except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Dzanc Books, 5220 Dexter Ann Arbor Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smith-Stevens, Emma, 1982- author.

Title: The Australian : a novel / by Emma Smith-Stevens.

Description: First edition. | Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016038920 (print) | LCCN 2016055287 (ebook) | ISBN 9781941088746 | ISBN 9781945814082

Subjects: LCSH: Young men--Fiction. | Australians--Fiction. | Identity (Psychology)--Fiction. | Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction. | Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction. | Psychological fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3619.M5975 A97 2017 (print) | LCC PS3619.M5975 (ebook)

| DDC 813/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038920

First US edition: May 2017
Interior design by Michelle Dotter

Printed in the United States of America

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