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- 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.
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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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Limberlost is a 2022 novel by the Australian author Robbie Arnott. [1] 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...
Oct 17, 2022 · Through the character of Ned, Arnott explores how the texture of our lives and our relationship with the natural world has changed over time, as well as the grain of temporality itself. Limberlost moves back and forth in time as easily as the mind slips into the past then resurfaces in the present. The effect is a swirl of memories that ...
Sep 30, 2022 · Robbie Arnott’s acclaimed previous novels feature a man made of fire ( Flames) and a bird made of rain ( The Rain Heron, which won The Age Book of the Year award), but in Limberlost magic lies in lyrical language and the powerfully real characters brought to life through it.
- Kimberley Starr
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.
Mar 3, 2023 · It is set in a stunning and beautifully-rendered-by-Arnott environment, in this case northeast Tasmania, in the Tamar River valley. There are enough similarities to suggest that Arnott also loved Porter’s novel.
