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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In drops . ' Little drops ? ' ' Yes , yes , Annie . Little drops of liquid from nose , throat , anywhere really , which germs . Duncan . ' Any damp fluid which might contain germs . If Charlie had had poliomyelitis and had sneezed in my ...
In drops . ' Little drops ? ' ' Yes , yes , Annie . Little drops of liquid from nose , throat , anywhere really , which germs . Duncan . ' Any damp fluid which might contain germs . If Charlie had had poliomyelitis and had sneezed in my ...
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... wither in the gloom , goes to sleep , worn out , presumably , by both physical and emotional exertion . Bella , a silver eggcup in each hand , sits curled in her corner . One of a the cups drops from her fingers and falls with a IOO.
... wither in the gloom , goes to sleep , worn out , presumably , by both physical and emotional exertion . Bella , a silver eggcup in each hand , sits curled in her corner . One of a the cups drops from her fingers and falls with a IOO.
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Or with . a Once I was making drop castles by the river and Colonel Holdaway who lives along the beach came along with his shooting stick which has a spike with a ring around it to stop it going too far into the sand .
Or with . a Once I was making drop castles by the river and Colonel Holdaway who lives along the beach came along with his shooting stick which has a spike with a ring around it to stop it going too far into the sand .
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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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