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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... stay in the shearing quarters after all this kerfuffle he is very much mistaken . And furthermore , ' she says , huffing herself to her feet , ' I'm not staying here another minute . Not a minute . And you can tell him I said so ...
... stay in the shearing quarters after all this kerfuffle he is very much mistaken . And furthermore , ' she says , huffing herself to her feet , ' I'm not staying here another minute . Not a minute . And you can tell him I said so ...
Page 115
... stay at the Pa . ' Charlie says why can Patch stay at the Pa when he can't . Duncan says because they'd be ponged out . Charlie says that's pretty jolly funny coming from Duncan seeing he was the one who said Charlie'd get fleas from ...
... stay at the Pa . ' Charlie says why can Patch stay at the Pa when he can't . Duncan says because they'd be ponged out . Charlie says that's pretty jolly funny coming from Duncan seeing he was the one who said Charlie'd get fleas from ...
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... stayed at the Point . ' Mrs Clements , torn between a possible impugning of her hospitality and increasing dislike ... stay . ' He rubs his fingers on the polished table and stares at them . ' I feel I have put myself and my family in ...
... stayed at the Point . ' Mrs Clements , torn between a possible impugning of her hospitality and increasing dislike ... stay . ' He rubs his fingers on the polished table and stares at them . ' I feel I have put myself and my family in ...
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