The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Written by Edward Abbey
Narrated by Danny Campbell
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About this audiobook
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."
Edward Abbey
<p>Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated <em>Desert Solitaire</em>, which decried the waste of America’s wilderness, and the novel <em>The Monkey Wrench Gang</em>, the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the environment. Abbey was also one of the country’s foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.</p>
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Reviews for The Fool's Progress
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vintage Abbey. A story that sucks you in and won’t let you go. Happy, melancholy at times but a great read (or listen). Makes me want to go home too.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic book and the best Abbey I have read. It's ambitious but lives up to its title ("An Honest Novel) and its hits all of its marks. Tragic, hilarious and in the end touching (because you care about the curmudgeonly Abbey much like you would for a crazy alcoholic uncle).