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For fans of North Woods and The Vaster Wilds, Dusk is a propulsive, moody, and atmospheric take on the Western.
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they discover there's far more to the land and people of the highlands than they imagined. And as they close in on their prey, they're forced to reckon with conflicts both ancient and deeply personal.
From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of The Rain Heron, Dusk is a masterful, mythical tale of loss, redemption, and survival.
"Arresting...Readers will be utterly captivated by this atmospheric tale of danger and survival." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Stories about escaped big cats—especially panthers—have roamed the outlands of the Australian settler-colonial imagination for more than a century...In Dusk, Robbie Arnott takes these myths and reimagines them with fascinating results...Much of the magic of Dusk grows out of the writing. As anybody who has read any of his previous novels will know, Arnott has an astonishing facility with language, and his prose imbues the Tasmanian wilderness with an extraordinary, immanent beauty...Starkly beautiful and deeply felt." —The Guardian (UK)
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Robbie Arnott is a Tasmanian novelist. He's been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, twice-shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and has twice won The Age Book of the Year. He lives in Hobart with his wife and children.
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