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The Fool’s Progress

An Honest Novel

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The Fool’s Progress

Auteur(s): Edward Abbey
Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
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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 62.

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".

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I feel like I was listening to the life of a dear old and crusty miserable misfit friend. Edward Abbey is as politically incorrect as they come, and such a refreshing listen for his brutal honesty, disgust for much that is disgutable about modern society, no matter from what angle, left or right, that you view it. And when you think you figure out his thoughts, he surprises you with something new. I have read Desert Solitaire several times, Hayduke Lives, Good News, but this was the first time I listened to one of his books and now feel like it will clearly not be the last. We need people like Abbey to remind us of what we have lost, not his radical ideas or words, but the beauty lost to progress, like the cancer that eats away the central figure - it is erminal. And BTW one reviewer criticized the pronunciation of some of the names etc. from the Southwest. I believe it was deliberate, to distinguish how a hillbilly would try to pronounce Spanish based names. It made it more authentic.

An autobiography in disguise

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Danny Campbell's narration of Edward Abbey's autobiographical howl of eco-anarchist rage is perfect. This story is going to be with me for the rest of my life.

Perhaps too honest for Late Capitalism

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Not all books need to tell a great story they just have to tell a story well and this one does that and more. The story is told well holds your interest throughout. I recommend.

Great story well told.

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