Spunk A Fable Helen H O'Reilly 9781483979878 Books
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In the middle of a great new forest that covers post-apocalyptic New York City – and its immediate environs – a group of women survivalists establishes a community dedicated to survive through strictly ian principles, laws, and precepts. What surviving males ever enter the forest are hunted and captured solely to perpetuate the all-female community. Once the males’ procreative powers are exhausted the community converts them into (what else?) Lunch and dinner.
Spunk A Fable Helen H O'Reilly 9781483979878 Books
SPUNK, A Fable, is quite a brave choice for a title, and this bravery reflects in the tale tackled. As a lesbian I've read at least two of the sort of 'modern Amazonian tribe' fantasies prevalent in LGBT genre (in the early 90's) which SPUNK is an intelligent and astute spin on. Such all-female societies were ideal if not always utopian, purposed to elevate and overtly empower its female characters (and maybe make other statements). With SPUNK, Helen O'Reilly intends none of these things but explores a very believable path that a post-apocalyptic, all-female 'tribe' can take, and it's all shades of Lord of the Flies, and then some.But unlike the blunt, young boy/testosterone-fueled savagery of Flies, O'Reilly softens the more unsettling aspects of this female tribe, united in a corrupted vision of survival, with a fable's euphemistic language; just as we can easily digest the monstrosity of Baba Yaga through the simplicity of fairy tale, we can absorb the more queasy or frank aspects of SPUNK with O'Reilly's poetic narrative, though the estrogen-fueled savagery of her setting is still effectively intact. The fable comes to a very satisfying conclusion, as most good tales should, with a beautiful mix of both female and male characters (very much unlike the typical 'amazonian utopia' formula),who pull surprises at the end.
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Spunk A Fable Helen H O'Reilly 9781483979878 Books Reviews
On a day when the United States' official hurricane trackers warned that, instead of the usual 6 or 7 mighty blasts from the South Atlantic that usually devastate these shores in season, we can this year look forward to receiving 11, or even more.
What is more, warned the trackers, they could well be far more powerful than anything we, and our neighbors to the south, have ever seen. So, like those along our very long and very vulnerable coastline, my mind quickly focused on one thought Survival.
A few minutes later it refocused on the book I had just finished reading Spunk, a fable, by author Helen O'Reilly. That was all about survival, and it had gripped me as no other survival saga I had ever read both for its pure originality and literary beauty.
I live in the middle of the Mohave Desert (as does Ms. O'Reilly, the book jacket states) and hurricanes never reach here; tornadoes are very rare; and floods of any magnitude are unknown.
What we do have is a huge mix of people; and it is when she is writing about people - most especially women and young females - that Ms. O'Reilly's brilliance shines through her fictional creation of a post-apocalyptic disaster that has devastated her native New York and its environs.
The ruins of her once-proud megalopolis are now covered by a huge, dense forest that is spreading daily. Its only inhabitants are an extraordinary group of women survivalists who have banded together to form a community that is dedicated to ian principles. If any human males should ever enter their huge preserve, they are hunted and captured and preserved solely for their procreative powers to perpetuate the all female community.
Once those procreative powers are exhausted, they end up in the community cooking pots.
So skillful is Ms. O'Reilly's literary creation of this community, and most especially its individual leaders, that the horror of cannibalism is somehow assuaged by the women's dedication to survival at all costs.
I confess that after the first nine pages I simply could not put it down, and I read it through, all 320 pages in one sitting. I just had to know what happened to them all.
Is that the mark of a beautifully created fable? To that, I must answer Yes!
Spunk is an interesting and highly original view of a post-apocalyptic world where within a huge forest that has consumed much of New York City and its suburbs, a community of women flourishes. Together, they work to sustain the community. They farm, they hunt, they teach, they maintain shelters. In fact, this world of women seems to do quite well without men.
But they do need men in order to perpetuate the community. As men wander into the forest, they are trapped and hunted and put to good use. But once they've served their primary purpose, the women have found that the men taste pretty good.
I found this to be well written, engaging, humorous and hard to put down. The ending wasn't quite what I expected. But then again, I'm not sure that it actually ended. I'll definitely be looking for more from this author
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I could not put this Queens-based dystopian novel down It's well written, carefully plotted, and an exacting act of imagination. The best book I've read all year. Highly recommended!
SPUNK, A Fable, is quite a brave choice for a title, and this bravery reflects in the tale tackled. As a lesbian I've read at least two of the sort of 'modern ian tribe' fantasies prevalent in LGBT genre (in the early 90's) which SPUNK is an intelligent and astute spin on. Such all-female societies were ideal if not always utopian, purposed to elevate and overtly empower its female characters (and maybe make other statements). With SPUNK, Helen O'Reilly intends none of these things but explores a very believable path that a post-apocalyptic, all-female 'tribe' can take, and it's all shades of Lord of the Flies, and then some.
But unlike the blunt, young boy/testosterone-fueled savagery of Flies, O'Reilly softens the more unsettling aspects of this female tribe, united in a corrupted vision of survival, with a fable's euphemistic language; just as we can easily digest the monstrosity of Baba Yaga through the simplicity of fairy tale, we can absorb the more queasy or frank aspects of SPUNK with O'Reilly's poetic narrative, though the estrogen-fueled savagery of her setting is still effectively intact. The fable comes to a very satisfying conclusion, as most good tales should, with a beautiful mix of both female and male characters (very much unlike the typical 'ian utopia' formula),who pull surprises at the end.
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