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What nature can teach a boy about how to be a man
begins with a whale, not a marlin: an almost-mythical beast at the mouth of a Tasmanian river, troubling the waves with its fluked tail. But Robbie Arnott’s third novel carries echoes of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece. As its hero pits himself against nature to prove himself to older men – his father and his absent brothers – it could be read as a sort of ‘: a beautiful, pared-back exploration of masculinity, and the sustaining nature of dreams.
