Overview

In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road near a reclusive neighbor—a hermit named Ted Kaczynski. The two men are captivated by the valley’s endangered old-growth forest, but Kaczynski’s violent grievances against modern society soon threaten the lives of all those around him. As Kaczynski’s bombs crescendo to the book’s devastating conclusion, Old King wrestles with the birth of the modern environmental movement, the accelerating dominion of technology in American life, and a new kind of violence that lives next door. Told in four parts sweeping across two decades, Old King establishes Maxim Loskutoff as one of the most thrilling and inventive authors of the American west, a writer “endowed with fearless audacity, stunning grace, and gutsy heart” (Nickolas Butler).

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"""A gripping story of love and compassion, the end of the counterculture movement, and the nihilism and violence that replaced it. Maxim Loskutoff delves deep into America’s changing narrative, our lost connection to nature, and our attempts to regain them."" -- Philipp Meyer, Pulitzer Prize finalist author of The Son ""Old King is an exhilarating journey through the terrain of our uneasy kinship with the wilderness. Every misdeed and every act of devotion is thrillingly, horrifically, tenderly, magnificently true in these mountains."" -- Megha Majumdar, New York Times best-selling author of A Burning ""A Cormac McCarthy-esque story of a deeply troubled American west, Old King is lyrical, haunting, humane, and unflinching. It reads like an approaching thunderstorm, one from which you cannot shelter."" -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World ""Propulsive and thought-provoking . . . [Old King] examines the boundaries of society and solitude, the fine line between genius and madness."" -- Jamie Ford, New York Times best-selling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy ""An unforgettable story about what we ask of the wilderness and one another, Old King put its claws in me and didn’t let go. In crystalline prose, Maxim Loskutoff conjures an American West animated by both loneliness and love, weaving a kaleidoscopic story that is as historically gripping as it is timely today."" -- Erica Berry, author of Wolfish"

"""A Cormac McCarthy-esque story of a deeply troubled American west, Old King is lyrical, haunting, humane, and unflinching. It reads like an approaching thunderstorm, one from which you cannot shelter."" -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World"

"""Old King is a gripping story of love and compassion, the end of the counterculture movement and the nihilism and violence which replaced it. Loskutoff delves deep into America’s changing narrative, our lost connection to nature and our attempts to regain it."" -- Philipp Meyer, author of The Son and American Rust ""A Cormac McCarthy-esque story of a deeply troubled American west, Old King is lyrical, haunting, humane, and unflinching. It reads like an approaching thunderstorm, one from which you cannot shelter."" -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World ""An exhilarating journey through the terrain of our uneasy kinship with the wilderness. Every misdeed and every act of devotion is thrillingly, horrifically, tenderly, magnificently true in these mountains."" -- Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning ""Old King is a propulsive and thought-provoking novel that examines the boundaries of society and solitude, the fine line between genius and madness, and offers a rare glimpse into the mind of one of America's most notorious criminals."" -- Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy"

A Cormac McCarthy-esque story of a deeply troubled American west, Old King is lyrical, haunting, humane, and unflinching. It reads like an approaching thunderstorm, one from which you cannot shelter.--Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World

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Maxim Loskutoff is the award-winning author of Old King, Ruthie Fear and Come West and See. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, and GQ. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana.

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