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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics) [Paperback]

Edward Abbey
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29 July 2004 014118762X 978-0141187624 New Ed

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism.

Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough. A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise.


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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (29 July 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014118762X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141187624
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 141,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Ribald, outrageous and, in fact, scandalous."--"Smithsonian""Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more."-- "San Francisco Chronicle""Excellent high adventure."-- "Playboy" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Edward Abbey was born in Pennsylvania in 1927 and spent most of his life in the American southwest. His books include the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which established Abbey as one of the country's foremost defenders of the environment. Edward Abbey died in 1989.

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Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway-U.S. 66, later to be devoured by the superstate's interstate autobahn. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best film never made 16 Oct 2005
By Arthur Dooley VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
Forget Indiana Jones....The Monkey Wrench Gang would make any of the Speilberg/Ford IJ franchise films look like earnest Chekov plays if it ever made it onto the silver screen.
Abbey writes a cinematic epic charged with humour,passion and love.
The love of wilderness and the loathing of capitalist 'progress' which sees the great canyons and deserts of the American South West raped in the name of commerce.
Abbey's hostility towards the corporate/government sponsored eco vandals and his direct action response articulated in the pages of TMWG, inspired those who shared his vision to create a powerful environmental group 'Earth First'.
Now... How many books can claim to have started a green revolution !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stark for grown-ups 18 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
The Green political movement does not have its equivalent of the Communist Manifesto, possibly because it does not have a single ideological strain. What it does have is The Monkey Wrench Gang for inspiration, to return to when campaigning and personality politics has left you jaded.

Telling the tale of an odd-ball quartet of radical environmentalists (monkey-wrenchers, so-called because they stick a literal and metaphorical monkey-wrench into the machinery of environmental degradation) as they look for ever more effective and devastating ways of preventing the rape of the American wilderness.

Accusations of racism and sexism would not be completely unfounded but Abbey was exploring new political terrain...

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5.0 out of 5 stars a rip-roaring adventure 7 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
This is one of those books that takes over your life for the days that you read it, getting time to spend with this book will be a priority.

Although written in 1975 it doesn't seem dated, in fact far from it as Abbey's attitude to environmental concerns isn't very PC and so refreshing from that point of view. He is able to describe the feelings of the desert with a rare clarity and mix that with the horrors of industrial exploitation of the landscape.

It may have an environmental theme, but the main thrust of the story is a high octane adventure, made appealing because the protagonists are such an odd ball collection of characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eco warriors - 70s style
Abbey's manifesto for the eco movement is a balls out, twelve-bore, roller-coaster of a tale with a serious political and philsophical message. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Shirley Ramone
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality
A great quality book, used for university so the condition is quite important in terms of making my own notes, clear visibility etc :)
Published 2 days ago by Rachel Louise Slater
3.0 out of 5 stars grown up vandles
I thought this story would be amusing
but it only brings home the ability of the human to destroy what they don't like. Read more
Published 1 month ago by violet may
5.0 out of 5 stars Still relevant
A great story of eco-anarchy.

Would rather have the old cartoon cover, but this edition is well-worth buying for the introduction by Sclosser, and Redford's foreword.
Published 1 month ago by Me
5.0 out of 5 stars More relevant now than ever
An amazingly good yarn even if you ignore the eco message. I first read it when it came out, (1975)? and it shaped the world view of an eighteen year old. Read more
Published 2 months ago by john c spencer
3.0 out of 5 stars RESISTANCE IN THE USA
The Monkey Wrench Gang.

I found it interesting that there are people in the USA, prepared to go to such lengths to resist change and developement. Are there really? Read more
Published 3 months ago by Graham Ward
4.0 out of 5 stars The Monkey wrench Gang
my first experience of an edward abbey book , now i have a kindle which allows me to browse what for me are unknown authoers , i like the preface and decided give it a go, enjoyed... Read more
Published 3 months ago by bill
5.0 out of 5 stars The Monkeywrench Gang
The Monkeywrench gang. This was my second reading and wont be my last! Wonderfully written and full flowing in humour, description and loyalty, one could be almost one of the gang... Read more
Published 3 months ago by john
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
An unusual script but, after persevering with the first dozen pages, I was quite gripped with the story. Would suit most readers.
Published 3 months ago by C. D. Fenn
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, a bad buy.
I did not finish it as it was not very engaging, though I sympathised with the sentiments which inspired it.
Published 3 months ago by Nandita Menon
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