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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But the best part of all at Rongomaha is Claude . Claude does the rubbish and the wood and animals like the pigs and stray lambs , and puppies when they have them . He used to do the hens as well but Mrs Jackson pinched them so she can ...
But the best part of all at Rongomaha is Claude . Claude does the rubbish and the wood and animals like the pigs and stray lambs , and puppies when they have them . He used to do the hens as well but Mrs Jackson pinched them so she can ...
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and Claude drops on his knees and peers at the thistle , then bangs Charlie on the back and says ' Betcha , this clue may be our breakthrough ! ' And Charlie looks as though he's going to burst he's so happy . ' Do it again .
and Claude drops on his knees and peers at the thistle , then bangs Charlie on the back and says ' Betcha , this clue may be our breakthrough ! ' And Charlie looks as though he's going to burst he's so happy . ' Do it again .
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Claude takes his pipe out of his mouth . ' Well , men , as you know from your previous briefing this operation must , of necessity , be a clandestine one . B Coy has in a sense , been scuppered , bewildered and bebuggered by the enemies ...
Claude takes his pipe out of his mouth . ' Well , men , as you know from your previous briefing this operation must , of necessity , be a clandestine one . B Coy has in a sense , been scuppered , bewildered and bebuggered by the enemies ...
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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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