The Pale Light of Sunset features Maynard’s most lyric and elegant prose and his most complex vision . Miniature masterpieces like “Arrow in the Light” and “A Death in the Mountains” chilled my skin in awe. Throughout the novel, Maynard’s trademark outrageousness is deepened by a tender vulnerability. I was moved by the poignancy and gentleness of the childhood chapters; I was breathless during the suspense and hard violence of those recounting the protagonist’s prime. But the novel is at its most rare and its most profound when it climaxes in the perspective of maturity and its celebration of the beauty and fragility of life.
-Ann Pancake, author: Strange as this Weather Has Been
This memoir is earthy in the best sense. It's haunting. It has miracles. It also has earnest and honest questions and moments of grace.
-Marie Manilla, author: of Shrapnel
"(Maynard writes like) Jean Shepherd on acid . . . CRUM is one twisted little novel."
Robert Beveridge, Critic
"Maynard is a Gonzo Mountaineer . . . "
Pops Walker, Musician; Writer
"CRUM is great. Lee Maynard is a genius.
No writing has captured rural America this well since Mark Twain.
A masterpiece!"
Stephen Coonts, author of: "Flight of the Intruder"
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