The Monkey Wrench Gang

Audacious, controversial, and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey''s masterpiece-a big, boisterous, and unforgettable novel about a motley group of renegades whose freedom and commitment helped to ignite the flames of environmental activism. ''A thing of beauty . . . a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine.''-Houston Chronicle

About the author

Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America’s wilderness, and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the environment. Abbey was also one of the country’s foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.

Summary

“A thing of beauty. . . . A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine.” —Houston Chronicle
Edward Abbey's classic tale of rebellion, camaraderie, and environmental justice—a prescient, comic masterpiece of destructive mayhem and outrageous civil disobedience that speaks to us today
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved Southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move—and peaceful coexistence be damned!

Product details

• Authors: Edward Abbey
• Assisted by: Robert Crumb (Illustration), Doug Peacock (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.12.2006
• EAN: 9780061129766
• ISBN: 978-0-06-112976-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 28 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Crime, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: LITERATURE, FICTION: Humorous / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Classics