Long Hot SummerIt is 1936. As they have done every summer, the Hopkins family - Anne, 8, Duncan, 12, Charlie, 5, and their parents, Derek and Lorna - have rented a house at the Beach. Alone during the week, Lorna is bored. When James Clements, the most handsome man in the Bay, decides to make an amateur cowboy film called 'Lust in the Dust', Lorna plays the whore with the heart of gold. James' sister Isabel is the cameraman, and the local Maoris are enrolled as Indians. The film's title proves disturbingly prophetic. Unaccustomed proximity leads to unaccustomed liaisons, allegiances are questioned and the old certainties suddenly melt away. It is the perfect story to display Barbara Anderson's extraordinary gifts. |
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1 1 a by the potatoes but Dad dug it but Dad dug it up and cleaned it and told Charlie he must wear it always and always and always . Mum tells him too . Does he want to be hopping about the place all his life , she says , and Charlie ...
1 1 a by the potatoes but Dad dug it but Dad dug it up and cleaned it and told Charlie he must wear it always and always and always . Mum tells him too . Does he want to be hopping about the place all his life , she says , and Charlie ...
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He told me that there is initiative and initiative , called Charlie to him , sat him on his knee and explained to him that he must no longer ask people for ice creams at the Store . Charlie explained that he didn't ask for them ...
He told me that there is initiative and initiative , called Charlie to him , sat him on his knee and explained to him that he must no longer ask people for ice creams at the Store . Charlie explained that he didn't ask for them ...
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He's mine , ' mutters Charlie . ' He can't be yours . He's in Rainbow . He's everybody's . ' She trundles the wheel towards the yellow gazania . “ See . Now , he's rescued the man . He's all bleeding and Betcha's whizzing him to the ...
He's mine , ' mutters Charlie . ' He can't be yours . He's in Rainbow . He's everybody's . ' She trundles the wheel towards the yellow gazania . “ See . Now , he's rescued the man . He's all bleeding and Betcha's whizzing him to the ...
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| Title | Long Hot Summer |
| Author | Barbara Anderson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0224060651, 9780224060653 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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