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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Joe sticks his tongue out and we stop staring but it's still interesting . ... Mr Ropata is smaller as well as older than Tam , and he carries a carved stick to lean on . His hat has a duck feather in it and his legs are bandy .
Joe sticks his tongue out and we stop staring but it's still interesting . ... Mr Ropata is smaller as well as older than Tam , and he carries a carved stick to lean on . His hat has a duck feather in it and his legs are bandy .
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He turns the fish over with a stick to facilitate inspection of the white writhing heap . Disturbed sandhoppers shoot upwards . I pop black bladderwrack pods with my sandal . Anything is better than maggots . From the nearby hills comes ...
He turns the fish over with a stick to facilitate inspection of the white writhing heap . Disturbed sandhoppers shoot upwards . I pop black bladderwrack pods with my sandal . Anything is better than maggots . From the nearby hills comes ...
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Claude has brought a bit of tin to put on top of the fire because in his experience bangers - on - sticks are one of ... We try them anyhow , but even my green stick burns , and my sausage bursts and Claude says it's beyond redemption .
Claude has brought a bit of tin to put on top of the fire because in his experience bangers - on - sticks are one of ... We try them anyhow , but even my green stick burns , and my sausage bursts and Claude says it's beyond redemption .
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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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