The Monkey Wrench Gang
  • Published: 26 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141187624
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00

The Monkey Wrench Gang

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The cult novel that ignited the American environmental movement, now reissued in PMC

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.
  • Published: 26 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141187624
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for The Monkey Wrench Gang

A thing of beauty - a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale

Houston Chronicle

Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more

San Francisco Chronicle

A violently revolutionary novel

The New York Times

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a magnificent snarl of genres: spaghetti westerns tangled up with the Keystone Cops, the Cervantean romance tradition and Acme cartoon capers

Guardian

The book that influenced a generation of radical environmentalists

Washington Post

Launched America's 'eco-defense' movement ... A lasting cult classic

LA Times

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