The Monkey Wrench Gang

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$18.99  $17.66
Publisher
Harper Perennial
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Pages
480
Dimensions
5.36 X 8.01 X 1.19 inches | 0.74 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780061129766

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About the Author
Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions of readers. Abbey's career as a writer spanned four decades and encompassed a variety of genres, from essays to novels. One of his early successes was the novel The Brave Cowboy, which was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. His 1968 collection of essays, Desert Solitaire, became a necessary text for the new environmentalists, like the group 'Earth First, ' and his rambunctious 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, a picaresque tale of environmental guerillas, which launched a national cult movement and sold over half-a-million copies. Other titles include The Journey Home, Fool's Progress, and the posthumously released Hayduke Lives!
Reviews

"Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Endangered as it is, the air in this novel is a pleasure to breathe." -- Newsweek

"A romp of a novel with a bent toward sabotage, Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang will inspire you." -- Terry Tempest Williams, The New York Times Book Review

"Twirls along full of joy, mayhem, daring, high jinks, and rip-roarin' humor." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Abbey masterfully weds the traditions of the romantic quest with the suspense novel as he follows the motley fellowship on its campaign to preserve beauty and do battle with corporate forces of destruction." -- Detroit Free Press

"Ribald, outrageous and, in fact, scandalous." -- Smithsonian

"Excellent high adventure." -- Playboy

"You can't help but cheer on this likable but unlikely quartet of modern-day industrial saboteurs." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Edward Abbey sits high in my pantheon of 20th century writers for his anarchic eco-activist novel The Monkey Wrench Gang." -- New Statesman

"Crunch! Kapow! Crash! Bang! The Monkey Wrench Gang is the wish-fulfilment dream of eco-Luddites everywhere." -- The Guardian

"The Monkey Wrench Gang is a quartet of modern-day vigilantes, with a social conscience and a vengeance." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"[Abbey] is part of that great American tradition to which Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck and Sinclair Lewis also belonged: angry men who demonstrated that, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, it has so far been seriously outgunned by the bulldozer, the F-11 and--above all--by the dollar." -- New Statesman

"Edward Abbey may have invented a new fictional genre, the ecological caper." -- Newsweek

"[Abbey] wrote with exceptional exactitude and an unusually honest and logical understanding of causes and consequences, but he also loved argument, churlishness and exaggeration." -- New York Book Review