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 onl...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." "A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." --.