Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 146680629X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Book Synopsis The Fool's Progress by : Edward Abbey
Download or read book The Fool's Progress written by Edward Abbey and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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