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LIMBERLOST

Robbie Arnott

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.

Desperate to ignore it all—to avoid the future rushing towards him—Ned dreams of open water.

As his story unfolds over the following decades, we see how Ned's choices that summer come to shape the course of his life, the fate of his family and the future of the valley, with its seasons of death and rebirth.

The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.

Robbie Arnott's acclaimed debut, Flames (2018), won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award and a Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award, a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Not the Booker Prize. His follow-up, The Rain Heron (2020), won the Age Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Voss Literary Prize and an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature.
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Published 2022-10-01 by Text Publishing

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"Robbie Arnott has written two books and each time has been listed for the Miles Franklin, one of the most important English-language awards in the southern hemisphere. It's the cultural equivalent of being twice-listed for the Booker. It's incredible confirmation of his talent, and the new one is further, stunning evidence. Limberlost possesses all the semi-mythic and dark textures of an Arnott novel, but also summons a powerful take on family and brotherhood, notions of masculinity and how they conflict with a precious environment. He's sort of a Tasmanian Murakami, and we're hugely proud that Atlantic Fiction continues to be his UK home." — James Roxburgh, acquiring editor for Atlantic Books, in the Bookseller Read more...

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