The Fool’s Progress

Edward Abbey
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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.”
Genres: FictionNovelsNatureTravelEnvironmentLiteratureContemporaryClassicsAmericanHumor
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