"Arnott neatly balances the story of the hunt with excursions into the Renshaws' troubled past . . . But even as he propels the novel's plot forward, Arnott's evocative prose keeps the ruggedly beautiful 'freeing, lung-emptying openness' of the Tasmanian highlands--an environment that poses an ever-shifting set of fearsome obstacles to Iris and Floyd--in the foreground."
--Harvey Freedenberg, BookPage

"This is nature writing at its finest."
--Sam Franzini, Our Culture

"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."
--James Bradley, The Guardian

"Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a wisdom that extends beyond the page. With Dusk, he asserts himself as one of Australia's finest literary writers."
--Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites