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Biographical note
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 (1968), which established Abbey as one of the country's foremost defenders of the environment, and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975). Abbey died in 1989. He is today considered to be one of the most influential conservationists of the twentieth century.The book that influenced a generation of radical environmentalists
Washington Post
<i>The Monkey Wrench Gang </i>is a magnificent snarl of genres: spaghetti westerns tangled up with the <i>Keystone Cops</i>, the Cervantean romance tradition and Acme cartoon capers
Guardian
A thing of beauty - a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale
Houston Chronicle
A violently revolutionary novel
The New York Times
Launched America's 'eco-defense' movement ... A lasting cult classic
LA Times
Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more
San Francisco Chronicle
Inspired acts of eco-activism in its day, and remains one of the most passionate pleas in literature to protect our wild places
Independent
A sad, hilarious, exuberant, vulgar fairy tale... It'll make you want to go out and blow up a dam
The National Observer
'Revolutionary ... An extravagant, finely written tale of ecological sabotage' The New York Times
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.