"[ Old King] reads like an approaching thunderstorm, one from which you cannot shelter." -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts "[ The] explosive climaxforeshadows a more dangerous, deadly America." -- Connie Ogle and Carole E. Barrowman - Minneapolis Star Tribune "A gripping story of love and compassion, the end of the counterculture movement, and the nihilism and violence that replaced it." -- Philipp Meyer, author of The Son "Mr. Loskutoff is unmatched at evoking the contentious, transitional nature of the American Westa place of new and clashing mythologies." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal "Deftly captures how the environment is both enchanting and fearsome." -- Mark Athitakis - Los Angeles Times "The evils of ever-encroaching technology and environmental degradation are admirably presented by Loskutoff not as the bugaboos of an unhinged crank, but as real-life conflicts in the ecotone of town and wild country." -- Smith Henderson - New York Times Book Review "Powerful and suspensefulLoskutoffs narrative is swiftly paced and deeply textured, with a keen sense of the landscape and its cantankerous human inhabitants. This leaves a mark." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Old King is a compelling, sometimes harrowing and occasionally sweet novel confronting emotional disconnect, the relationship between humanity and nature, and modern fears about technology, all the while giving readers characters who care deeply about each other and the world around them. This smart, captivating and provocative book is highly recommended." -- Sarah Rachel Egelman - Bookreporter "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 "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 didnt 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
