{"product_id":"9781324110965","title":"Old King: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NPR “Best Book of the Year”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  “Eerily atmospheric, keep-you-up-late suspenseful.” —Alexis Burling, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  In this haunting novel about the end of the frontier dream, a man tries to reinvent himself in one of America’s last wild territories, while his neighbor begins a crime spree that will tremble the nation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eOld King\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTold in four parts sweeping across two decades, \u003cem\u003eOld King\u003c\/em\u003e 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49990955630832,"sku":"9781324110965","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324110965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}