The Fool's Progress - by Edward Abbey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>The Fool's Progress, </i>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. </b> <p/>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. <p/>A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force. -- <i>The Chicago Tribune</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Praise the earth for Edward Abbey." --<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers and recreates them as traditional American myth." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"We are living...among punishments and ruins. For those who know this, Edward Abbey's books remain an indispensable solace." --<i>Wendell Berry</i> <p/>"He is the voice of all that is ornery and honorable." --<i>Alice Hoffman</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>The author of<i> Desert Solitaire</i> and <i>The Monkey Wrench Gang</i> is unchallenged among radicals of all ages. <b>Edward Abbey</b>, an American icon, called the original fly in the ointment by Tom McGuane, today has roads and a town named after him.</p>
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