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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I'm not sure whether this makes things better or worse . I think of Derek . James also is on to honour and I gather has been for some time . I watch him with belated attention as he expounds and extrapolates about the legends of the ...
I'm not sure whether this makes things better or worse . I think of Derek . James also is on to honour and I gather has been for some time . I watch him with belated attention as he expounds and extrapolates about the legends of the ...
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I'm not sure I will ever manage ' in the can ' . The Ropatas arrived after breakfast in the yellow truck , were offered tea , and declined . The loaded farm truck , escorted by the mounted contingent , set off in convoy for Devil's ...
I'm not sure I will ever manage ' in the can ' . The Ropatas arrived after breakfast in the yellow truck , were offered tea , and declined . The loaded farm truck , escorted by the mounted contingent , set off in convoy for Devil's ...
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But is she quite sure ? I ask , anxious not to intrude on her grief and relaxed at the possibility of not having to do so . No , no , it will be no trouble , she says . Henry is a good driver and we can bring back the bread .
But is she quite sure ? I ask , anxious not to intrude on her grief and relaxed at the possibility of not having to do so . No , no , it will be no trouble , she says . Henry is a good driver and we can bring back the bread .
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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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