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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He and Charlie go sailing up the river with Tam swimming beside and Charlie sitting there grinning like the Laird of ... The canoe goes all wobbly when Joe stands up and Charlie hangs on like mad , still grinning , but not so much .
He and Charlie go sailing up the river with Tam swimming beside and Charlie sitting there grinning like the Laird of ... The canoe goes all wobbly when Joe stands up and Charlie hangs on like mad , still grinning , but not so much .
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Even when I show him a tiny little bush orchid I found he just nods and goes on muttering Charlie says , ' Are we nearly there ? ' Claude looks at him and says , What ? ' ' The glow - worms . ' Yuh , yuh , ' says Claude , sort of ...
Even when I show him a tiny little bush orchid I found he just nods and goes on muttering Charlie says , ' Are we nearly there ? ' Claude looks at him and says , What ? ' ' The glow - worms . ' Yuh , yuh , ' says Claude , sort of ...
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Mrs Clements goes ' Waah ' and sits down crying more than ever . Mum takes her arm and says wouldn't she like to go to her room and Mrs Clements says she has no intention of going to her room , there are things to be dealt with and the ...
Mrs Clements goes ' Waah ' and sits down crying more than ever . Mum takes her arm and says wouldn't she like to go to her room and Mrs Clements says she has no intention of going to her room , there are things to be dealt with and the ...
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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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