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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Limberlost
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'The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness.

'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 HeronLimberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: For my family
  •  Selected as one of the ABC Arts best books of 2022

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 240p.
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      • Published 5th October 2022
      ISBN: 9781922458766
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Atlantic Books ,
      2022 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 November 2022 (hardback and ebook). Paperback published 3 August 2023.
      ISBN: 9781838956820 (pbk), 9781838956806 (hbk), 9781838956813 (ebk)
Alternative title: Limberlost : Roman
Language: Norwegian
    • Oslo,
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      Norway,
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
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      Cappelen Damm ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 224p.p.
      ISBN: 9788202757441

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Works about this Work

Miles Franklin 2023 : A Guide to the Shortlist of Australia’s Biggest Literary Prize Julienne Van Loon , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;
Queer Disobedience, Cultural Erasure and Uncomfortable Truths : Your Guide to the 2023 Miles Franklin Shortlist Julienne Van Loon , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 July 2023;

— Review of Iris Fiona Kelly McGregor , 2022 single work novel ; Cold Enough for Snow Jessica Au , 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel ; Hopeless Kingdom Kgshak Akec , 2022 single work novel ; The Lovers Yumna Kassab , 2022 single work novel ; Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran , 2022 single work novel
Miles Franklin Award 2023: Shortlist Revealed for Australia’s Prestigious Literary Prize Michael Sun , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 20 June 2023;
Book Review : Limberlost, Robbie Arnott Thuy On , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2022;

— Review of Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel

'The award-winning writer is in fine form as he tackles the big themes of death, love and hope.'

Robbie Arnott’s “Limberlost” : A Review by Lyndon Riggall Lyndon Riggall , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Forty South Tasmania (Online) 2022;

— Review of Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel

'Robbie Arnott’s much-anticipated third novel, Limberlost, feels recognisably steeped in the writer’s usual literary preoccupations, with a couple of significant points of difference. Following 2018’s Flames and 2020’s The Rain Heron, Limberlost feels less self-consciously clever, less busy, less ambitious, but entirely more honest. If Arnott’s previous offerings have been a stage performance, Limberlost feels more like having a beer at the pub with a friend.' (Introduction)

‘Funny’, ‘Punchy, ‘A Gorgeous Writer’ : the Best Australian Books Out in October Steph Harmon , Sian Cain , Michael Sun , Imogen Dewey , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 October 2022;

— Review of Seeing Other People Diana Reid , 2022 single work novel ; Tripping Over Myself : A Memoir of a Life in Comedy Shaun Micallef , 2022 single work autobiography ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel ; Faith, Hope and Carnage Nick Cave , Sean O'Hagan , 2022 single work autobiography interview ; A Kind of Magic Anna Spargo-Ryan , 2022 single work autobiography ; The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane , 2022 single work novel
A Distant Leviathan : Robbie Arnott’s Realist New Novel Jennifer Mills , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 447 2022; (p. 38)

— Review of Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel

'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. The frightened child waits in a small boat for the animal’s power to show itself.'  (Introduction)

Robbie Arnott Limberlost Fiona Wright , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 15-21 October 2022;

— Review of Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel

'Driving his young daughters home from school, Limberlost’s protagonist, Ned, stumbles through an accidental telling of an anecdote from childhood. The details, for which his children press him, suddenly feel distant, strange. Ned is struck for a moment by some fundamental grief, and wonders “if the troubled boy of that summer would recognise the man he’d become”.'(Introduction)   

The Best New Books Released in October as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics Kate Evans , Claire Nichols , Sarah L'Estrange , Declan Fry , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2022;

— Review of Seeing Other People Diana Reid , 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel ; The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane , 2022 single work novel
Books Roundup : Blackbirds Don’t Mate with Starlings, Nothing to Hide, Gemini Falls, Limberlost Ellen Cregan , Daley Rangi , Duncan Strachan , Raeden Richardson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2022;

— Review of Blackbirds Don't Mate with Starlings Janaka Malwatta , 2022 selected work poetry ; Nothing to Hide : Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ; Gemini Falls Sean Wilson , 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost Robbie Arnott , 2022 single work novel
Miles Franklin Award 2023: Shortlist Revealed for Australia’s Prestigious Literary Prize Michael Sun , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 20 June 2023;
Miles Franklin 2023 : A Guide to the Shortlist of Australia’s Biggest Literary Prize Julienne Van Loon , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;
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