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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Lorna a a I used to be a nice woman , kind and pleasant , a dear girl once , I swear . I When I was young , younger . Now I sit in a deck chair in the cool of the evening with Mrs Clements and her daughter Isabel who are both reasonably ...
Lorna a a I used to be a nice woman , kind and pleasant , a dear girl once , I swear . I When I was young , younger . Now I sit in a deck chair in the cool of the evening with Mrs Clements and her daughter Isabel who are both reasonably ...
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Lorna > ' The working title , ' says James , ' is Lust in the Dust . ' Harry Laing's legs shoot out from beneath the deck chair , the heels of his sandals crack the verandah . ' In the what ? ' says Mrs Clements . I say nothing .
Lorna > ' The working title , ' says James , ' is Lust in the Dust . ' Harry Laing's legs shoot out from beneath the deck chair , the heels of his sandals crack the verandah . ' In the what ? ' says Mrs Clements . I say nothing .
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Lorna а James has decided to shoot the gambling den shots first . Mrs Clements thinks he should start at the beginning and shoot through to the end . James says that is not how films are made . His mother says she knew Sid wouldn't mind ...
Lorna а James has decided to shoot the gambling den shots first . Mrs Clements thinks he should start at the beginning and shoot through to the end . James says that is not how films are made . His mother says she knew Sid wouldn't mind ...
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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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