The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
 

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)

by Edward Abbey, Douglas Brinkley

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns... (read more)

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A modern-day anti-western, where the outlaws are the heroes and the authorities are the villains. At once a manifesto and something of an instruction manual for constructive destruction, Abbey's cult classic novel rails against the evils of overdevelopment and the establishment, glorifying conscientious sabotage and extreme environmental activism. His characters, though, are among the last kind of people you'd expect to be doing such things: a redneck beer-chugging Vietnam veteran, a...

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