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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Oh good , ' says Bel and moves to sit beside her . Angus remonstrates , I can see him doing so . No , no . Let me . There's “ one left at the back . ' ' Then you go and sit there , ' smiles Bel . Tamati Ropata is on his feet .
Oh good , ' says Bel and moves to sit beside her . Angus remonstrates , I can see him doing so . No , no . Let me . There's “ one left at the back . ' ' Then you go and sit there , ' smiles Bel . Tamati Ropata is on his feet .
Page 106
She moves among the assembled cast and onlookers like a local Member of Parliament among her constituents ... lounging on their battered chairs , smiles at their blank faces and moves on to sink down onto an armchair beside Mr Ropata .
She moves among the assembled cast and onlookers like a local Member of Parliament among her constituents ... lounging on their battered chairs , smiles at their blank faces and moves on to sink down onto an armchair beside Mr Ropata .
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Give them space , ' shouts Colonel Holdaway , and people move back a bit , but not enough . Mrs Clements is crying but she moves out of the way and so do the others , and Mr Jackson and Stan take over from Mum and Duncan and they carry ...
Give them space , ' shouts Colonel Holdaway , and people move back a bit , but not enough . Mrs Clements is crying but she moves out of the way and so do the others , and Mr Jackson and Stan take over from Mum and Duncan and they carry ...
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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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