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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780805057911
ISBN: 0805057919
Label: Holt Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: August 15, 1998
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Sales Rank: 27190
Studio: Holt Paperbacks
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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."
Amazon.com Review:
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
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After "The Monkeywrench Gang", this is my favorite book by Abbey -- full of action, humor, and hatred for the death machine ... good read.
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I honestly preferred Monkey Wrench and Desert Solitaire but this is worth a read. It's a thinkpiece and gives you a little insight into the author. Wonderful imagery with honest to goodness hills and valleys.The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)Desert SolitaireConfessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
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Henry Lightcap migrates westward on the cusp of maturity but heads back east near the end of his life. This novel describes both journeys at once in a series of interleaved chapters. Each journey has its own logic, but we don't fully understand Lightcap or the relationship between his journeys until the end of the book, when both journeys have been completed.
Lightcap is Abbey's alter ego, much as the fictional narrator of "A Fan's Notes" is Frederick Exley's. Abbey and Exley have plenty ... Read More
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Vulgar but funny and philosophically dense life story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap, a West Virginia hillbilly removed to the great Southwest. His misadventures in life and love provide a funny and ribald background to serious matters as well as silly ones.
His vocabulary and cadence remind me so much of a dear friend of mine that I wondered if he had not written this book psuedonymically.
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If you're even the least bit prudish or squeamish about startling sex scenes leaping off the page and coming right at you, forget Ed's book. If you're not, dig in - it's a hoot - tempered throughout by sorrow, regret over fancied failure, soft heart pretending to be tough, a personality so complex as to never be destined to be happy with a woman. The reader senses that he wishes it were otherwise but really doesn't know what to do about it without becoming someone he himself can't live with. Ed Abbey ... Read More
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