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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Page 156
The horses and the riding at the Maori Race Meeting were good , but nothing like the Indians at Devil's Canyon . Tam Ropata is the best rider I've seen , one arm high up at the back like rodeo riders on the steepest bits , then both his ...
The horses and the riding at the Maori Race Meeting were good , but nothing like the Indians at Devil's Canyon . Tam Ropata is the best rider I've seen , one arm high up at the back like rodeo riders on the steepest bits , then both his ...
Page 212
Indians : Wiremu Ropata , Tamati Ropata , Joe Ropata . Cameraman : Isabel Clements . ' Obviously , he explains , this leaves him seriously short of Indians . The only one left is Hare , who he presumes is still a starter .
Indians : Wiremu Ropata , Tamati Ropata , Joe Ropata . Cameraman : Isabel Clements . ' Obviously , he explains , this leaves him seriously short of Indians . The only one left is Hare , who he presumes is still a starter .
Page 246
James and the Indians rehearse their arrival at the river with their bound victim – none of them are dressed for the part , but James wears his white cowboy hat . He sits upon his horse tightly bound ( with the woolshed rope , I notice ) ...
James and the Indians rehearse their arrival at the river with their bound victim – none of them are dressed for the part , but James wears his white cowboy hat . He sits upon his horse tightly bound ( with the woolshed rope , I notice ) ...
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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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