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Aug 29, 2023 · Fundamentally, Limberlost is a coming-of-age novel but one that also happens to tell a whole life from childhood to 90s – in just over 200 pages. That’s impressive writing. If you like family sagas, this is not for you, but if you are interested in what makes a life a life then Arnott has written just the book.
- The Road to A Career in Writing
- Writing Eco-Fiction
- Modern-Day Myth-Making
- Fraught Relationships
- Can Writers Solve The Climate Crisis?
After graduating from university, Arnott, like so many university-educated Tasmanians before him, swapped his nature-filled life in Hobart for the skyscrapers and laneways of Melbourne. He had realised that his dream of working in publishing was unrealistic for someone lacking the right connections. It was "post-GFC", and publishing jobs were scant...
Arnott, like his fellow Tasmanian writers Heather Rose (The River Wife, 2009) and Richard Flanagan (The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, 2021), could be called a writer of "eco-fiction", says Professor Jen Webb, from the University of Canberra. She defines the genre in The Conversationas "literature in which the natural world plays a major role, and wh...
Along with a preoccupation with the natural world, much of Arnott's writing has a timeless, mythical quality. Flames features a fire spirit, The Rain Heron opens with the fable of a magical bird, and Limberlost begins when Ned is five years old, with the apocryphal story of a mad whale besieging boats at the mouth of the Tamar River. While Ned's me...
At the same time as Arnott draws upon myth in his writing, his three novels also illustrate the fraught relationship between the human and natural worlds — and between settlers and Indigenous peoples. In Limberlost, bare paddocks replace native forests, and the unfettered use of pesticides has devastating consequences. Ned recalls working in a logg...
The University of Canberra's Jen Webb says climate change and humans' incapacity to live in harmony with the natural world are the main drivers behind much contemporary eco-fiction. It's true in the case of Arnott, who says becoming a father only heightened the anxiety he feels about the looming climate crisis. "I'm hugely worried … I'm trying to f...
Jan 1, 2022 · ‘Limberlost is an immersive experience, a story that is deeply embedded in the language of its environment…Though Arnott has cast fabulism aside, [this novel] retains a mythic quality…Scaled right down to a single, humble life, Limberlost is lit up by the energy of that life’s relationships. It serves as a reminder of the complicated position humans occupy, tangled as we are in the ...
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Nov 26, 2022 · Dreams of adventure. Set on an apple orchard in Tasmania during the Second World War, it tells the story of teenager Ned, whose two older brothers join the Army, leaving him behind with a taciturn father and a bossy older sister. While the narrative largely unfolds over the course of a summer, it also weaves in glimpses of Ned’s future life ...
Oct 27, 2022 · Limberlost begins in the summer holidays of fifteen-year-old Ned West, moving backwards and forwards in time until he is a very old man. Like the rest of his motherless family, he is reserved, reticent, stoic and hardworking, but he is underconfident in the shadow of his older, more competent brothers who are away at war.
Nov 9, 2022 · Freedom and selfhood. Much of Limberlost focuses on 15-year-old Ned. He is effectively at war too, in his case with the local rabbits. He spends much of that year shooting and trapping as many as ...
The Limberlost Swamp in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. state of Indiana was a large, nationally known wetlands region with streams that flowed into the Wabash River. It originally covered 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of present-day Adams and Jay counties. Parts of it were known as the Loblolly Marsh, based on a word by local Native ...
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