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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... go down to the hard sand where the yellow truck's parked with all the gear , buckets and sacks and stuff , and the Ropatas mucking about . Bel goes up to Tam and says , ' Can we help ? ' Tam looks at Mr Ropata and he's not laughing at ...
... go down to the hard sand where the yellow truck's parked with all the gear , buckets and sacks and stuff , and the Ropatas mucking about . Bel goes up to Tam and says , ' Can we help ? ' Tam looks at Mr Ropata and he's not laughing at ...
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... 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 hopping about as though he can't help it . It's all getting too hard for ...
... 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 hopping about as though he can't help it . It's all getting too hard for ...
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... 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 sooner the ...
... 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 sooner the ...
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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