The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

Name: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Price: 17.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (424 reviews)
Author: Edward Abbey

by Edward Abbey

Literary Fiction Memoir

4.5 (424)

4.5 stars from 424 reviews

513 pages~8.6 hr readPublished by Owl BooksPublished 1988-01-01

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You're drawn to memoirs disguised as novels, where the author's real voice bleeds through every page.
You love characters who are difficult, profane, and utterly unrepentant about their flaws.
You appreciate fierce environmental passion mixed with self-aware humour about a man's own contradictions.

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You prefer tidy narrative arcs where characters learn clear lessons and achieve redemption.
You're looking for a feel-good road trip novel with growth and inspiration.
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About this book

Edward Abbey's autobiographical novel follows an aging man's anarchic journey across America in search of home. The Fool's Progress spans from his childhood memories in Appalachia to his life in Tucson at age sixty-two. When his third wife leaves him in Tucson, the misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and departs in a battered pick-up truck bound for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, he embarks on a bizarre cross-country odyssey determined to make peace with his past and to oppose the ravages of "progress."

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