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by Edward Abbey (Author) "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,..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (29 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014118762X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141187624
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Stark for grown-ups, 18 Jun 2002
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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 The best film never made, 16 Oct 2005
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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 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A funny but very stimulating view of environemtal issues, 1 Nov 1999
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I first encountered this book whilst travelling in Utah and Arizona many years ago. However, it remains a firm favorite and is a book I have recommended to many friends. Edward Abbey paints a picture of how we are destroying our environment with little regard for anything but monetary value. However. he wraps this message in a exciting story that is a is so much more than just a campaign gimmick. It is far from a 'heavy' read but underneath it packs a powerful punch.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Silent Spring
If Hunter S Thompson was an environmentalist, he'd be a paid-up member of The Monkey Wrench Gang.

A great read.
Published 8 months ago by Brian Buckley

2.0 out of 5 stars The fascist gun in the West...
'The Monkey Wrench Gang' is an affable potboiler. Edward Abbey might have read a book-or-two (and be keen to let you know it); but it's appropriate that his stylistic pretentions... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars a rip-roaring adventure
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. Read more
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