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Author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang", this tragi-comic novel focuses on Henry, who, left flat by his third wife, responds by first shooting the refrigerator and then taking off in his old Dodge pickup, accompanied by his dying dog, Solstice. The story follows his journey and adventures.
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Just before he died in 1989, Ed Abbey published what he called his "honest novel," one loosely based on his own life. Early in its opening pages, Abbey's alter ego, Lightcap, takes off from his nearly empty home (its contents just removed by a disgruntled spouse) in Tucson, Arizona--but not before shooting his refrigerator, a hated symbol of civilization. Lightcap makes a winding journey by car to his boyhood home in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, calling on old friends along the road, visiting Indian reservations and out-of-the-way bars, and reminiscing about the triumphs and follies of his life. Readers would be mistaken to view this as pure autobiography, but The Fool's Progress nonetheless is an illuminating look into Abbey's time and his way of thinking, especially on matters of ecology and other social issues. It's also a picaresque tale humorously and artfully told, a book that Abbey himself rightly regarded as one of his best works of fiction. --Gregory McNamee
About the Author
The author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang is unchallenged among radicals of all ages. Edward Abbey, an American icon, called "the original fly in the ointment" by Tom McGuane, today has roads and a town named after him.
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THE FOOL'S PROGRESS
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing, First UK Edition. Best known for his earlier novel, "The Monkey Wrench Gang," which became a cult classic of the nation's radical environmentalists, Abbey's seventh work of fiction and his last to be published before his death in 1989, is the life story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap, told by him during a 3,500-mile journey across the U.S. from Tucson, Arizona, to Stump Creek, West Virginia; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable. Seller Inventory # 003632
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Near fine condition.The Bodley Head,1989.First UK edition-first printing.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases,some nicks and srcatches on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice & clean pages with a couple ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,some creases and a very small mark on the edges of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.Nice & clean book with light shelf wear.Edward Abbey's last and best Novel.485pp.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition. This is another paragraph Synopsis: Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, this tragi-comic novel focuses on Henry, who, left flat by his third wife, responds by first shooting the refrigerator and then taking off in his old Dodge pickup, accompanied by his dying dog, Solstice. The story follows his journey and adventures. Seller Inventory # 12772
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Near fine condition.The Bodley Head,1989.First UK edition-first printing.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases,some nicks and srcatches on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice & clean pages with a couple ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,some creases and a very small mark on the edges of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.Nice & clean book with light shelf wear.Edward Abbey's last and best Novel.485pp.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition. This is another paragraph Synopsis: Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, this tragi-comic novel focuses on Henry, who, left flat by his third wife, responds by first shooting the refrigerator and then taking off in his old Dodge pickup, accompanied by his dying dog, Solstice. The story follows his journey and adventures. Seller Inventory # 2504
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