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512: 187:, Howard Coale said it was "a particularly self-involved novel" and while praising the sentimental moments of the book, he notes "Unfortunately they are drowned out to almost a murmur by the harpings of a slightly malevolent and self-indulgent voice." Genaro Gonzalez, writing for the 168:
After Henry Lightcap's third wife storms out of the house and his life, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and decides to drive across the country journeying to his childhood home in
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The book is a semi-autobiographical novel about a man, Henry Holyoak Lightcap, who refuses to submit to modern commercial society. Unlike Abbey's most famous fiction work,
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considered it to be his "fat masterpiece." It was the final book published in his lifetime; his final novel was
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gave it a positive review calling it "an epic exploration of Abbey's passionate loves and hatreds."
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Edward Abbey
Henry Holt & Co.
ISBN
0805009213
Edward Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang
environmentally
American Southwest
Edward Abbey
Hayduke Lives!
West Virginia
The New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Publishers Weekly


"Beer, Guns and Nietzsche"
The New York Times
ISBN
978-0816522675
"Hellbent and Homeward Bound : The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey"
Los Angeles Times
"The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel"
Publishers Weekly
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Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire

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