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When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls, the younger two - one of them Jane - sharing a birthday. With so much in common, the two families became almost instantly inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and before long the pairs had exchanged partners - divorced, remarried, and moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two families were ripped asunder, and two new ones were formed. Two pairs of girls were left in shock, a 'silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside, quietly fissuring'. And Jane and her stepsister were thrown into a state of wordless combat for the love of their fathers. (Source: Trove)
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'My Father's Knife' : Autobiography as Hermeneutic Phenomenology
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 7 no. 3 2010; (p. 317-323) -
Family Swap Triggers a Memoir Scandal
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 November 2009; (p. 13) -
Foreign Affairs
2009
single work
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 June 2009; (p. 4-5) -
And Then One Day the World Turned Upside Down
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 April 2009; (p. 15)
— Review of The Sisters Antipodes 2009 single work autobiography -
Off the Shelf : Memoir
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 April 2009; (p. 28)
— Review of The Sisters Antipodes 2009 single work autobiography
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My Father, Your Father
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 29 March vol. 114 no. 13 2009; (p. 17)
— Review of The Sisters Antipodes 2009 single work autobiography -
Off the Shelf : Memoir
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 April 2009; (p. 28)
— Review of The Sisters Antipodes 2009 single work autobiography -
And Then One Day the World Turned Upside Down
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 April 2009; (p. 15)
— Review of The Sisters Antipodes 2009 single work autobiography -
Foreign Affairs
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 June 2009; (p. 4-5) -
Family Swap Triggers a Memoir Scandal
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 November 2009; (p. 13) -
'My Father's Knife' : Autobiography as Hermeneutic Phenomenology
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 7 no. 3 2010; (p. 317-323)
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