Title: Tamara Hunney
Author: Kendrew Lascelles
Publisher: Blurb.com
ISBN: 9780615505183
Pages: 311, Paperback & Kindle
Genre: Fiction
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Synopsis
With U.S. communication grids 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 avoided drinking the water, beautiful mid-teen Tamara Hunney, orphan of a porn star, and Sam Winterstone, a staunch Christian and impoverished screenwriter and horseman, 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 a wagon for the 1500 mile trek to find Tamara’s Aunt Tillie in Denver. As they travel the late summer months they discover the Hoover Dam is blown. On the climb north to the high desert, out of feed 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, a self-described Mormon Muslim, (allowing himself multiple wives) trapped there with his two spouses, three daughters, and several ranch hands and their families. Teal, at once attracted to Tamara, but as determinedly blind to her lethal street-smarts, 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 through a mutilation and homicide by Tamara to a desperate chase and fatal conclusion among the Navajo of Arizona.
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About the Author
Kendrew Lascelles co-authored the musical revue Wait A Minim, and, following near a 2 year run at at Golden Theater Broadway, later wrote for The Smothers Brothers Summer Show (where he first recited his poem THE BOX) He then wrote for the The Dean Martin Show and The Gold Diggers. His 2 one act plays, Trophy Hunters and Tigers, the former published in Best Short Plays of 1970, (the latter in the best of 1973) Tigersfirst produced for NET, Owings Mills Maryland, was. subsequently produced by Jerry de Wilde and Bill Snell at the Company Of Angels (Los Angeles) in conjunction with Trophy Hunters; both directed by Robert A. Miller. Trophy Hunters extended to 2 acts was later produced at the Denver Center Theater Company. Waterhole (Blood Oasis) was produced under the title: Legends at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Robert Egan, and at Humana Festival, Louisville Actor's Theater. Exclusive Circles was produced by Denver Center Theater Company. SCREENPLAYS: The Aryan Couple, roughly based on Eichmann Interrogated. by Jochen von Lang & Claus Sibyll, wherein Eichmann recounts his meeting with Heinrich Himmler, concerning the Manfred Weiss case. Produced and partially rewritten and directed by John Daly, the film starred Martin Landau and Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver Danny Webb. Focus. Screenplay based on the novel by Arthur Miller. Produced by Robert A. Miller, and Michael R. Bloomberg, released by Paramount Classics, was directd by Neal Slavin., and starred William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, and Meat Loaf Aday. Lascelles latest stage play - A Child’s Guide To Heresy based on the novel of the same title, (reviewed by Pacific Book Review) recieves its world premier at the prestigious PITTSBURGH PLAYOUSE (Paul Hennigan, Executive Producer) and is produced by Ronald Allan-Lindblom (Artistic Director) and directed by Robert A. Miller.
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