The Fool s Progress: An Honest Novel
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The Fool s Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two.
When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the "real" Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey--determined to make peace with his past--and to wage one last war against the ravages of "progress."
"A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." -- The Chicago Tribune
Just before he died in 1989, Ed Abbey published what he called his "honest novel," one loosely based on his own life. Early in its opening pages, Abbey s alter ego, Lightcap, takes off from his nearly empty home (its contents just removed by a disgruntled spouse) in Tucson, Arizona--but not before shooting his refrigerator, a hated symbol of civilization. Lightcap makes a winding journey by car to his boyhood home in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, calling on old friends along the road, visiting Indian reservations and out-of-the-way bars, and reminiscing about the triumphs and follies of his life. Readers would be mistaken to view this as pure autobiography, but The Fool s Progress nonetheless is an illuminating look into Abbey s time and his way of thinking, especially on matters of ecology and other social issues. It s also a picaresque tale humorously and artfully told, a book that Abbey himself rightly regarded as one of his best works of fiction. --Gregory McNamee Author: Edward AbbeyBinding: PaperbackBrand: Abbey, EdwardEAN: 9780805057911ISBN: 9780805057911Label: Holt PaperbacksManufacturer: Holt PaperbacksMPN: 9780805057911NumberOfItems: 1NumberOfPages: 528PackageQuantity: 1PartNumber: 9780805057911ProductGroup: BookProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOKPublicationDate: 1998-08-15Publisher: Holt PaperbacksReleaseDate: 1998-08-15Studio: Holt PaperbacksTitle: The Fool s Progress: An Honest Novel