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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And we stopped . Mrs Clements has now given up on Isabel . For a time before she lost interest she scared the wits out of the one or two young men who hovered briefly and were never seen again . They were , she told us , unsuitable .
And we stopped . Mrs Clements has now given up on Isabel . For a time before she lost interest she scared the wits out of the one or two young men who hovered briefly and were never seen again . They were , she told us , unsuitable .
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Duncan's father told me that the rhythm of their song can be translated as Tah tah tah tiddely pom . I suppose many have thought of this , but it was he who told me . ' ' How are things , ” I say as we light up , with you and Angus ?
Duncan's father told me that the rhythm of their song can be translated as Tah tah tah tiddely pom . I suppose many have thought of this , but it was he who told me . ' ' How are things , ” I say as we light up , with you and Angus ?
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He married Grace Stacpoole , the sprightly younger daughter of the original grocer in the town , by whose good offices ( as his proud son Harold told me ) he produced a son and four daughters . Having made his modest pile , George and ...
He married Grace Stacpoole , the sprightly younger daughter of the original grocer in the town , by whose good offices ( as his proud son Harold told me ) he produced a son and four daughters . Having made his modest pile , George and ...
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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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