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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The crowd stills , stops talking , stares . A glass crashes from a table . A lean and hungry dog skids outside . A baby cries . ' I have something to say , ' cries Harry Laing . Eight feet tall and totara proud , he steps forward ...
The crowd stills , stops talking , stares . A glass crashes from a table . A lean and hungry dog skids outside . A baby cries . ' I have something to say , ' cries Harry Laing . Eight feet tall and totara proud , he steps forward ...
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Stop , ' I cry , ' stop talking , I'm here . ' Not unnaturally , they retreat . I am alone . I walk stiffly to inspect the photographs . The faces stare back at me with the non - committal gaze of the dead and buried . They take no 132.
Stop , ' I cry , ' stop talking , I'm here . ' Not unnaturally , they retreat . I am alone . I walk stiffly to inspect the photographs . The faces stare back at me with the non - committal gaze of the dead and buried . They take no 132.
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He's walking too fast and clicking his fingers and talking to himself . Even when I show him a tiny little bush orchid I found he just nods and goes on muttering Charlie says , ' Are we nearly there ? ' Claude looks at him and says ...
He's walking too fast and clicking his fingers and talking to himself . Even when I show him a tiny little bush orchid I found he just nods and goes on muttering Charlie says , ' Are we nearly there ? ' Claude looks at him and says ...
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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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