ABANDONED. post apocolyptic novel where the protaganist dies

[Monika]

Read in the news today about fatal fungal infections in the wounds of Joplin Tornado survivors and it flipped a memory switch to this book I read when I was in high school, so 2000 at the latest, and likely a YA novel, in which I'm pretty sure the main character was dying at the end from a fungal infection in a gash in his leg. There weren't many people left on Earth, but I can't remember why. I think there were 2 characters in the book. I remember a deer drinking water and dying (possibly not related to drinking the water). I thought it was Z for Zachariah, but googling that makes me think I just read these two post apocalyptic books the same summer :-p.

[rivka]

Does it have glowing (radioactive) rocks, and the rite of manhood is bringing one back?

[Monika]

I honestly don't remember much of the book at all so I can't say with certainty that it doesn't have glowing rocks or a rite of manhood, but I think they're just trying to survive as best they can after everyone else has died so I can't really see them going off on a rite of manhood.

[Darcy]

I don't remember all the details about this book, I read it in the '80s, but I do recall there weren't many characters.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

[Clare K. R.]

Could it be The Road? There are two main characters, a father and son, and the father is dying at the end and also has an injury to his leg. I don't think there are any deer, though. But most other people in the world are dead from a non-specified apocalyptic event.

[Shanna_redwind]

It's not Malevil is it? I remember that the protagonist dies, but I can't remember from what.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Bump.

[Michele]

bump, because this sounds vaguely familiar and I'd like to read it!

[Bargle]

It's not Malevil. I've read that and the character doesn't die from a leg wound.

[Lynne]

it's it Dreamcatcher by Stephen King? not post apocalyptic, but there is a red fungus that is killing a lot of things and there is wildlife in the book

[Ella-grace]

Could it be Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood? The protagonist, Jimmy/Snowman, is the last human left on earth with a new species created by his friend who created the infection that killed everyone else. He gets a cut in his leg at the end that gets infected and left wondering if it has killed him.

[Abby]

Monika, did any of these suggestions lead to your book?

[Michele]

Ooh, this sounds so familiar. I know Stephen King's The Stand has a character that dies of a leg injury but I think if it was Stephen King you'd have remembered that. Z for Zachariah does have a leg wound but I don't think it's fatal. At the time you read the book, do you have a recollection of whether it was a new book or older? How long was the book? Anything about the cover? Recall how old the main character was?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

No posts from Monika since 2011. Moving to Abandoned.