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Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, The
 

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1 1988-10-01 Henry Holt & Co  

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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." ------- "Praise the earth for Edward Abbey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "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."--The New York Times Book Review "We are living...among punishments and ruins. For those who know this, Edward Abbey"s books remain an indispensable solace."--Wendell Berry "He is the voice of all that is ornery and honorable."--Alice Hoffman
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