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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- ISBN
9780141187624
- Published
- July 29th 2004 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- Modern Fiction
- Number of pages
- 448
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129
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