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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... course , it's impossible . Girls seem to lose all sense of anything , let alone decorum , when he is around . They just fling themselves on their backs and kick their legs in the air . ' ' How terrible . ' ' Yes , ' says his mother with ...
... course , it's impossible . Girls seem to lose all sense of anything , let alone decorum , when he is around . They just fling themselves on their backs and kick their legs in the air . ' ' How terrible . ' ' Yes , ' says his mother with ...
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... course they had to ride them home from town . Still , two cups were not to be sneezed at . I also admire the wedding photographs , or rather the newspaper clippings of them . James has collected these for years , many of them from ...
... course they had to ride them home from town . Still , two cups were not to be sneezed at . I also admire the wedding photographs , or rather the newspaper clippings of them . James has collected these for years , many of them from ...
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... course , their brother Harold , from whose bedroom the balcony opened . Rongomaha has always been known for its hospitality . No swag- gers nor anyone down on his luck has ever been turned away . Both George Clements and his son Harold ...
... course , their brother Harold , from whose bedroom the balcony opened . Rongomaha has always been known for its hospitality . No swag- gers nor anyone down on his luck has ever been turned away . Both George Clements and his son Harold ...
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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