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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... eyes . I leap from the verandah , seize him above the knees to upend him , beat his back . He coughs , splutters , sobs with fright as I beat and beat and beat . ' Is he going to die ? ' yelps Ann as the tyre shoots from Charlie's mouth ...
... eyes . I leap from the verandah , seize him above the knees to upend him , beat his back . He coughs , splutters , sobs with fright as I beat and beat and beat . ' Is he going to die ? ' yelps Ann as the tyre shoots from Charlie's mouth ...
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... eyes - She won , and Cupid blind did rise ... ' What a pig of a lady ! ' I say . ' You didn't say before about his eyes . ' ' Why'd she want his eyes ? ' says Charlie . ' What'd she do with them ? ' ' Maybe she wanted to pickle them ...
... eyes - She won , and Cupid blind did rise ... ' What a pig of a lady ! ' I say . ' You didn't say before about his eyes . ' ' Why'd she want his eyes ? ' says Charlie . ' What'd she do with them ? ' ' Maybe she wanted to pickle them ...
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... eyes with a lace - trimmed handkerchief . Women of independent means possess beautiful handkerchiefs . It is one of the signs . She raises her faded blue eyes to mine . ' What on earth has that got to do with it ? ' she snaps . I have ...
... eyes with a lace - trimmed handkerchief . Women of independent means possess beautiful handkerchiefs . It is one of the signs . She raises her faded blue eyes to mine . ' What on earth has that got to do with it ? ' she snaps . I have ...
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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