The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled
it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed
Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to
his approaching death in Tuscon 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 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."
"A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force."
-- The Chicago Tribune