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Tamara Hunney
by Kendrew Lascelles
282 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1298; ISBN 1-4251-3398-3; US$19.86, C$19.86, EUR13.57, £10.25
In the post holocaust California, an orphaned teenage porn star embarks with a Christian cowboy to find her aunt in Denver, unknowing it's nuked to glass.
About the Book
The entire U.S. communication grids are down. Ignorance rules. Poisoned Los Angeles water accounts for survivors in the thousands dying by the day - among millions dead. Of the living handful who did not drink the water, Tamara Hunney, off the streets, and Sam Winterstone, a staunch Christian and impoverished screenwriter living in a trailer park beside a non-poisoned lake in horse-country, chance together and rescue 8 steers and 9 horses and, by looting the local feed and tack stores, ready them for the 1500 mile trek to find her Aunt Tillie in Denver. With feed and water on a wagon, they set off in the last of the summer weeks, and plan to winter halfway. As they travel they discover the Hoover Dam is blown. On the high desert, out of feed and they and their critters near to frostbite, they encounter a friendly town near Prescott, and a sheriff who sends them to winter at a billionaire newspaper publisher John Teal's summer ranch; he's trapped there by the apocalypse with his wives, daughters, and ranch hands. (His adopted Muslim religion allows him four wives.) Determinedly blind to Tamara's lethal street-smarts, he deprives her and Sam of their weapons, holds them prisoner, and believes he's winning her to his perversions and plans to marry her to his brutish son, Lewis. From here the story advances into a desperate chase and fatal conclusion among the Navajo of Arizona.
Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars I was blown away by this book!
Poet, playwright, and screen writer Kendrew Lascelles has published a gripping novel, "Tamara Hunney", which spins a cautionary tale while bringing the reader on an adventure journey that is filled with nail-biting anxiety.
Tamara is a young world wise and weary girl who's treacheries past and present assault the reader with surgical precision, cutting to the core of a world gone wrong. Tammy meets up with an unlikely hero, Sam a Christian cowboy, who has survived the devastation both physically and spiritually. Together they trek through blinding blizzards and the blistering desert in search of other survivors and a sense of the formal "normalcy" of their country.
Sam is a true, rich, and sincere character. He lifts off the page making sense to the reader the way a good friend does. He illuminates a bitter truth we all have been facing. In his own way he had been braced for the events that turned the world upside down and was long mourning the loss of his beloved country during the early stages of its illness. The actual death came as little surprise to him.
"Tamara Hunney" is an important story of hope prevailing through the actions of people who dig down and survive, who contain in their soul the true American spirit. Both Tamara and the story start out in bleakness beyond compare, yet soon into things the smallest thread of hope appears. The story pulls on that thread until it is a bright shining beacon, not just for Sam and Tammy, but for all of mankind. The question, unanswered to the bitter end of this page-turner: will that hope come to fruition or is it the end for all?
The novel is a blend of terror and tenderness that writer Kendrew Lascelles manages with great detail and depth. "Tamara Hunney" is a novel of our times, for our times: Both a story and a warning. The horror and destruction depicted in this story could very well happen. And when? Tomorrow, honey.
S. Mariner
Castle Rock, CO United States
About the Author
Kendrew Lascelles writes plays, screenplays, and novels, and lives in Southern California.
Read more about the author at www.imdb.com.
