Come West and See Stories [Hardcover]

Devastating & grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until its left an indelible mark.A new kind of American Western. This book climbs into the heads of its characters, pokes at their insecurities with a sharpened stick, then reaches out a hand to invite you in.A blazing new and original talent. ... [Loskutoff's stories] vividly expose escalating resentments with extraordinary eloquence and compassion.Fans of Cormac McCarthy and Russell Banks will find plenty to like in Loskutoff's fresh voice and keen instincts for drama. ... [T]he language is crisp and often thrilling in its plainspoken eloquence.A ferocious love letter to the forgotten and the scorned,Maxim Loskutoff highlights life on the other sidethe disenfranchised, angry, sullen, rebellious, gun-packing side. See them attempt to create a homeland of their own.Like postcards from a truthful place,Violence waits for its moment in the quietest of lives, and Loskutoff shows us that we had better face it and do our best to understand it. A tough, human work of fiction.The strongest characters in this book are the ones who are most adrift, most ready to latch onto whatever comes next, and this makes them both tragic and dangerous ... If there is a great novel to be written about the life of the 21st century interior northwest, then Maxim Loskutoff is a prime candidate to author it.Atits fiery center, Loskutoffs humans are caught in brutal personal crossfires:a fraying couple trying to save their injured pet coyote, a woman plotting tomurder a tree, a militiamans wife who blames his death on her sin ofself-pleasure & in Loskutoffs blade-sharp prose.Perhaps the most tragic aspect of Loskutoffs characters is that even as they are drawn into the psychological vortex of the Redoubt, they know that the rebellion is futile. . . They have nothing to lose, and so they look for something, anything to believe in.Loskutoff writes a good sentence [and] has a fine eye for the meaningful detail&A welcls(