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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... tell her I'm sure nothing so drastic will occur . She asks me how I know . I tell her I don't , but I am sure that her fears are misplaced . ' You don't know them like I do . It's not like it used to be , you know . When I think of the ...
... tell her I'm sure nothing so drastic will occur . She asks me how I know . I tell her I don't , but I am sure that her fears are misplaced . ' You don't know them like I do . It's not like it used to be , you know . When I think of the ...
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... tell her , ' are the windows of the soul . Your mother says Bella's face is serious , angry . ' Please , ' she says . We sit on the kitchen table , our feet on stools , our smokes nearby . There are ... Tell me , ' she says . I tell 143.
... tell her , ' are the windows of the soul . Your mother says Bella's face is serious , angry . ' Please , ' she says . We sit on the kitchen table , our feet on stools , our smokes nearby . There are ... Tell me , ' she says . I tell 143.
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Barbara Anderson. " Tell me , ' she says . I tell her about the hotel in Waipawa , the Fruits in Season and the sign which welcomes Commercials . I tell her how it ended . How I was determined to have his child . I tell her about Duncan ...
Barbara Anderson. " Tell me , ' she says . I tell her about the hotel in Waipawa , the Fruits in Season and the sign which welcomes Commercials . I tell her how it ended . How I was determined to have his child . I tell her about Duncan ...
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