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The Last of the Long Hot Summers single work   short story   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 The Last of the Long Hot Summers
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'I had stopped writing apocalyptic fictions. They had begun to seem passé. How many end of the world scenarios could you produce? But that summer we went to Mont St Michel. There were warning signs about the quicksands in the bay, but our feet sank into the melted tar of the car park, it was so hot. We had come from Rabelais’s birthplace and the heat in the Loire valley had reduced that small stone home to silence. There were illustrations in the display case of Gargantua pissing, but outside our sweat evaporated before it even reached the surface of our skin. We slaked our thirst on supermarket wines, with that ineffable flavour imparted by the petrochemical refineries and cellulose plants along the Rhône valley.' (Introduction)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Social Alternatives vol. 17 no. 2 April 1998 Z597977 1998 periodical issue 1998 pg. 43
Alternative title: Not the Last of the Long Hot Summers
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Wild Amazement Michael Wilding , Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 Z1256150 2006 selected work short story autobiography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 pg. 166-168
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