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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Legacy
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'Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist.

'As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths, as his secret double-life implodes.

'Can Simone accept her father for the man he is and forgive him for the man he's not?' (From the publisher's website.)

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Notes

  • Dedication: To my father,/ Paul Behrendt,/ Whom I love./ And whom I miss./Every Day
  • Launched by Kerry Reed-Gilbert and Jilpia Jones at Paperchain Bookstore, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, 13 November 2009.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2009 .
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      Extent: 282p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 26 October 2009
      ISBN: 9780702237331 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

The Odyssey of Paul and Larissa Behrendt Keith Windschuttle , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 55 no. 5 2011; (p. 7-8)
The Year's Work in Fiction: 2009-2010 Elizabeth Webby , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 55 no. 1 2010; (p. 119-139)
— Review of Fear Factor : Terror Incognito 2009 anthology short story extract ; A True History of the Hula Hoop Judith Lanigan , 2009 single work novel ; The World Beneath Cate Kennedy , 2009 single work novel ; The Paperbark Shoe Goldie Goldbloom , 2009 single work novel ; Swimming : A Novel Enza Gandolfo , 2004 single work novel ; The Bath Fugues Brian Castro , 2009 selected work novella ; The Lost Life Steven Carroll , 2009 single work novel ; Rainforest Narratives : The Work of Janette Turner Hospital David Callahan , 2009 single work criticism ; Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language Bernadette Brennan , 2008 multi chapter work criticism ; Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel ; The Nature of Ice Robyn Mundy , 2009 single work novel ; Lovesong Alex Miller , 2009 single work novel ; Wonders of a Godless World Andrew McGahan , 2009 single work novel ; Smoke in the Room Emily Maguire , 2009 single work novel ; The Australian Long Story 2009 anthology short story prose novella autobiography ; Every Secret Thing Marie Munkara , 2008 selected work short story ; Arrhythmia : Stories of Desire Richard Rossiter , 2009 selected work short story ; The China Garden Kristina Olsson , 2009 single work novel ; Barley Patch Gerald Murnane , 2009 single work novel ; Tom Hurstbourne, or, A Squatter's Life John Clavering Wood , 2010 single work novel ; Truth Peter Temple , 2009 single work novel ; The Window Seat and Other Stories Archie Weller , 2009 selected work short story ; Headlong : A Novel Susan Varga , 2009 single work novel ; The Legacy Kirsten Tranter , 2010 single work novel
Take Three Ian McFarlane , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 24 January 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of A Woman of Seville : A Novel of Love, Ladders and the Unexpected Sallie Muirden , 2009 single work novel ; Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel ; Father's Day Tony Birch , 2009 selected work short story
Child of the Revolution Johanna Leggatt , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 3 January 2010; (p. 12)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
[Review] Legacy Cherry Byford-Sibbing , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher , November vol. 89 no. 4 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
Larissa Behrendt 2009 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 29 October vol. 8 no. 189 2009; (p. 30)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
The Power, the Pride and the Prejudice Kathleen Noonan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 November 2009; (p. 21)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
Fiction Books Mary Philip , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 November 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 November 2009; (p. 21)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
Daughter's Quest for Sovreignty Jo Case , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 December 2009; (p. 29)
— Review of Legacy Larissa Behrendt , 2009 single work novel
Healing through Writing Michael Ruffles , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 November 2009; (p. 3)
A Legacy of Love Kirstie Parker , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 December no. 465 2009; (p. 40) Behrendt '...describes Legacy as a father-daughter story and a tribute to Aboriginal political activism and activists- especially those who mobilised in the early seventies. Some of those acivists were present at the launch adding to Behrendt's community 'cred' and the books authenticity.' Souce: Koori Mail no.465 2 December 2009 (p.40)
The Odyssey of Paul and Larissa Behrendt Keith Windschuttle , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 55 no. 5 2011; (p. 7-8)
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