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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... sort of twitching for a minute or two then went home . There was no blood . Duncan doesn't like being stuck with us , me being eight and Charlie only five and not good at keeping up because of his foot , but this summer he is because ...
... sort of twitching for a minute or two then went home . There was no blood . Duncan doesn't like being stuck with us , me being eight and Charlie only five and not good at keeping up because of his foot , but this summer he is because ...
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... sorted out ? ' He knocks out his pipe and rubs his boot on the burnt tobacco because of sparks . ' Yes , ' I say ... sort of whirring first so it's not much of a fright . We get to the store room and turn on the light . We can't find ...
... sorted out ? ' He knocks out his pipe and rubs his boot on the burnt tobacco because of sparks . ' Yes , ' I say ... sort of whirring first so it's not much of a fright . We get to the store room and turn on the light . We can't find ...
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... Sort of mumbling on and on about how he had to get into town . Urgent . Couldn't wait . Something about signing something . Lawyers , papers , all muddled up . We couldn't hear half of it , him going on and on , jumping about all over ...
... Sort of mumbling on and on about how he had to get into town . Urgent . Couldn't wait . Something about signing something . Lawyers , papers , all muddled up . We couldn't hear half of it , him going on and on , jumping about all over ...
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