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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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Most of the action takes place either in or around the Limberlost, or in the nearby, fictional town of Onabasha. The novel's main character, Elnora Comstock, is an impoverished young woman who lives with her widowed mother, Katharine Comstock, on the edge of the Limberlost.
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.
Jan 1, 2022 · Limberlost, Arnott’s third novel, is about an Apple farming rural family in Tasmania around the time of WWII. The father seems preoccupied with the fact two of his sons are off fighting the war leaving young Ned at home, with his older sister to help around the orchard.
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A sequel to the novel Freckles, it follows the main character Elnora Comstock, a poor young woman who lives with her mother Katharine, a widow. The Comstocks live on the edge of the famed Limberlost swamp, which caused the death of Robert Comstock, Elnora's father.
Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century.
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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.
Oct 17, 2022 · 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 reflects the way the past isn’t really, or isn’t only, behind us, the way what has happened continues happening in the confluence of time we call the present.
