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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Why should I feel cross because Isabel has seen fit to walk to the Store to decline an invitation for her beautiful brother to eat tough mutton in the hills with Garth Rowan , his pigeon - toed wife Midge and a dim cousin from Home .
Why should I feel cross because Isabel has seen fit to walk to the Store to decline an invitation for her beautiful brother to eat tough mutton in the hills with Garth Rowan , his pigeon - toed wife Midge and a dim cousin from Home .
Page 162
Charlie's still asleep as we creep past Mum and down to the store room in the dark which is blacker than any I've ever been in . We can't turn on any lights until we get to the store room and it takes us hours getting downstairs and ...
Charlie's still asleep as we creep past Mum and down to the store room in the dark which is blacker than any I've ever been in . We can't turn on any lights until we get to the store room and it takes us hours getting downstairs and ...
Page 203
Duncan , disgusted at the absence of his friend Mike from the Store , asks why can't he go and see Joe at the Pa . James says certainly not and drives on undeterred , in fact totally oblivious to the smouldering unrest in the back seat ...
Duncan , disgusted at the absence of his friend Mike from the Store , asks why can't he go and see Joe at the Pa . James says certainly not and drives on undeterred , in fact totally oblivious to the smouldering unrest in the back seat ...
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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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