Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel - Softcover

Abbey, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805057919 ISBN 13: 9780805057911

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Ornery and unpredictable, "Edward Abbey was an autobiographer, " writes the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, "speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life." And this novel, the "fat masterpiece, " as Ed labeled it, was 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 Tucson at age sixty-two. Funny and ribald, it offers what Larry McMurtry has called Abbey's "fine particularity, " the authority of "a writer who feels a lot and then manages to transcend his own notions of himself."

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Review:

"Praise the earth for Edward Abbey." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers and recreates them as traditional American myth." --The New York Times Book Review

"We are living...among punishments and ruins. For those who know this, Edward Abbey's books remain an indispensable solace." --Wendell Berry

"He is the voice of all that is ornery and honorable." --Alice Hoffman

About the Author:

The author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang is unchallenged among radicals of all ages. Edward Abbey, an American icon, called "the original fly in the ointment" by Tom McGuane, today has roads and a town named after him.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805057919
• ISBN 13: 9780805057911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 513