Book Review of Old King by Maxim Loskutoff
Name of Book: Old King Author: Maxim Loskutoff ISBN: 978-0-393-86819-7 Publisher: w.w. Norton Type of book: 1976-1996, Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, effects of nature, Lincoln Montana, jobs, NEIGHBORS, animals, technology, finding self, opening up Alice's world, choices, psychopathy, Year it was published: 2024 Summary: 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 s...