The Fool's Progress
by:
Edward Abbey (author)
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...
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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."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780805057911 (0805057919)
Publish date: August 15th 1998
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Edward Abbey's autobiographical novel . . . warts and all.
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