The Fool's Progress

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 West Virginia. The chapters alternate between his current journey and significant historical vignettes that shed light on his eccentric beginnings. ==Reception==

In a review for The New York Times, 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." Publishers Weekly gave it a positive review calling it "an epic exploration of Abbey's passionate loves and hatreds." ==References==