Old King
A Novel
by Maxim Loskutoff
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Pub Date Jun 04 2024 | Archive Date May 31 2024
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Description
In this novel about the end of the frontier dream, a logger builds a cabin near a recluse named Ted Kaczynski.
In the spring of America’s bicentennial, a man named Duane Oshun runs out of gas in Lincoln, Montana, a former mining boomtown. In this outlaw community, Duane joins a logging crew, falls for a waitress, and attempts to befriend his neighbor, a loner named Ted Kaczynski. Though the two men share a fascination with the Old King, an ancient Douglas fir anchoring the valley’s endangered old-growth forest, Kaczynski's violent grievances against modern society will shake the nation and place Duane in grave danger.
Told in four parts sweeping across two decades, Old King establishes Maxim Loskutoff as one of the most inventive and exciting authors of the American west, a writer “endowed with fearless audacity, stunning grace, and gutsy heart” (Nickolas Butler). 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.
About the Author: Maxim Loskutoff is the award-winning author of 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.
Advance Praise
"A gripping story of love and compassion, the end of the counterculture movement, and the nihilism and violence that replaced it. 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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780393868197 |
| PRICE | $27.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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