The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (inscribed with signed note)

Abbey, Edward

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Holt, NY, 1988

0805009213 / 9780805009217

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Inscribed on the half-title page: "to Chris -- all the best! Edward Abbey, SLC, 11/28/88." Also laid in is an autograph postcard signed to the recipient, Chris Jorgensen, sent from Oracle, Arizona, where Abbey lived. It reads in full: "28 June 84, Dear Mr. J: For information about Earth First! (which is my favorite radical environmental group), send $10 etc to EF!, Box 235, Ely, Nevada 89301 and you'll get a year's subscription to their more or less monthly journal. Lots of luck to you and I hope to read your writing in EF! or somewhere. Best regards, Ed Abbey." A nice note connecting Abbey to the group he famously inspired. Also laid in is an article, "The Anarchist's Progress," by Jim Fergus from Outside about the book; an article and obituary for Abbey from Desert News; a clipping of a memorial by publisher Gibbs Smith; and an advanced copy for a news story about potentially naming a wilderness after Abbey in Utah. A nice assemblage all and all. Jorgensen may be the newspaperman who went on to be the managing editor of the Billings Gazette. A very good copy in saffron boards, slightly soiled, with a blue cloth spine; a little dust soiling to text block faces, too. In a very good or better jacket. The postcard is very good with a few light coffee stains and crease down one side. The final novel published during Abbey's lifetime, which he considered his masterpiece. About the book: 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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Titre
The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (inscribed with signed note)
Auteur
Abbey, Edward
Éditeur
Holt, NY
Année de publication
1988
État de l'article
Very good
Jaquette
Very good
Signé
Signed
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0805009213
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780805009217
Édition
First edition.
Catalogues du vendeur
Fiction, Southeast, Southwest

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