HELP! Need title to older book!

[PrinceAndrei]

I'm looking for the title of a novel (possibly a young-adult book) that I read in the mid '80's. It was a doomsday/apocolyptic theme where a teenage boy awakens to find out that most of the world has been destroyed by a nuclear war. His small part of the world survived due to him living in some sort of geological enclave but he must battle mutated interlopers, hunger, boredom, and the occasional pack of wild dogs. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

 

[dwndrgn]

I'm sorry but it doesn't sound at all familiar to me. Do you know any names or places that might help?

I'm going to move this post over the the main books forum where it will be seen by more members who might be able to remember the book or find the title for you.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Been a while since I've read it, but this sounds like Neal Barett Jr's In Darkest America. However, the synopsis below differs from what you've mentioned in some particulars:

Another in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series (see above), this provocative novel is set in a world that nuclear war has almost decimated of cities, technology and large animals. To replace farm livestock, the country's sole source of meat is genetically altered humans, without intelligence or speech. A distant civil war out west, its harsh taxes and harsher collectors, force Howie Ryder to flee his family's Tennessee farm. He falls in with outlaw Pardo, who signs on with a big meat drive only to rustle it and playsand preys onboth sides in running guns. Barrett's SF rendering of this latter-day civil war comes complete with a version of slavery, cavalry charges and a young boy representing the country's coming of age. The romantic narrative skillfully moves from a well-told if familiar story of war and the western frontier to areas of ambiguity and uncertainty that readers are left to answer for themselves