The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1988 • Henry Holt

The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1981] HENRY HOLT & COMPANY

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Near mint dust jacket housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself looks and reads like new.  Beautiful copy!

The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of 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.