Description
The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important work; it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tucson 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 pickup 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."
Endorsements
"A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." — The Chicago Tribune