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- The novel is set in northeastern Indiana. Most of the action takes place either in or around the Limberlost, or in the nearby, fictional town of Onabasha.
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Jan 1, 2022 · In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost.
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Synopsis. Ned West is a young man living on his family's apple orchard, Limberlost, near a large river in the north of Tasmania. His father runs the property while his two older brothers are away at the Second World War.
- 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...
Limberlost opens with an image of nature as dangerous: a whale, reportedly driven mad or feral by a harpoon in its side, is alleged to be destroying fishing boats in a vengeful spree. Ned is five, and the whale stories haunt him so much that his father takes him out to see for himself.
Oct 5, 2022 · Spanning decades, Limberlost explores the human relationship to land and sea, the power of the natural world to captivate, delight and terrify, and the ties of the human heart. It is simple, lyrical and utterly sublime.
Nov 9, 2022 · 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 he can for...
Jun 12, 2024 · Limberlost is set in Tasmania and tells the story of Ned, from his childhood until his marriage and adulthood. It is of the Australian tradition of quiet, calm and meditative books that centre on a quiet child, then man, and embrace the environment around him.
