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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... child and my hair was useful for making fishing flies . I can remember the obligatory Ouch as my father and his ... children do not know this . More vulnerable and nearer the ground they conduct their arcane rituals , chant their chants ...
... child and my hair was useful for making fishing flies . I can remember the obligatory Ouch as my father and his ... children do not know this . More vulnerable and nearer the ground they conduct their arcane rituals , chant their chants ...
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... child stands between . They are a unit . They are followed by three Maoris whose names I don't know but whose faces I recognise from our day at the Races . These are men of distinction among their own . They stand behind the Laings in ...
... child stands between . They are a unit . They are followed by three Maoris whose names I don't know but whose faces I recognise from our day at the Races . These are men of distinction among their own . They stand behind the Laings in ...
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... children play with our brown brothers in the first place . It's certainly never happened before with any child from Laing's Point . ' nor my I do not say that I didn't so much let my children play with Joe as discover later that they ...
... children play with our brown brothers in the first place . It's certainly never happened before with any child from Laing's Point . ' nor my I do not say that I didn't so much let my children play with Joe as discover later that they ...
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Annie asks bareback beach Bella Bob Jackson Bully Pond calls Charlie's child Clements says Colonel Holdaway comes couch grass course darling door Dr Appleby eyes face feet film girl Girlingstone gives grins hair hand hangi happy Hare Harry head Henare horse Indians Isabel James Clements James's Jean Jeannie jump kids kitchen Laing Laing's Point laughs leap legs looks Lorna Maori Miri Miriama mother never nods pakeha pikelets Pontiac race remember ride river Rongomaha Ropata rouseabout sand says Angus says Bel says Charlie says Derek says Duncan says James says Mrs Clements says Mum Seven Little Australians shakes shouts ski pole smiles smoko stands stare stick stop swim swings talking Tamati tell thank there's things thought tide told tomorrow track truck verandah watch waves What's woman wonder yells