Written by environmental advocate Edward Abbey in , The Monkey Wrench Gang tells the story of a motley crew of environmental activists fighting industrialization in the American Southwest. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, this novel inspired a generation of eco-activists. Opening in the so-called "aftermath" (1) of the novel, Abbey immediately situates the reader in media res, at the site of a newly . The Monkey Wrench Gang is the story of a group of eco-warriors who seek to prevent exploitation of the American wilderness, using sabotage. It had its moments: some were very funny and some made me, as a tourist to Lake Powell many years ago, feel very guilty/5(). · In recent times, Al Gore has credited Rachel Carson (The Silent Spring) for introducing environmental concerns into his nascent consciousness, but it is a work of fiction not fact, Edward Abbey's "Monkey Wrench Gang", published first in , which is regarded as having inspired a new generation of angry young environmental activists to the practice of extreme sabotage, sometimes /5.
The Monkey Wrench Gang written by Edward Abbey in is one of his most noteworthy novels and deals with the issues relating to the use of sabotage tactics in protesting about environmental damages being inflicted in South West of America. The novel became very popular and created the idiom of monkey wrench in referring to the sabotage activities that damaged machines and led to violence in. Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the environment. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, considered by many to be his best work, is nonfiction that reflects Abbey's love for the American Southwest and draws on his experiences as a park ranger. Among his best-known works are The Brave Cowboy (), The Monkey Wrench Gang (), and The Fool's Progress ().
Then burn the slash, and harrow, seed, fertilize all over again, round and round and round again, faster and faster, tighter and tighter until, like the fabled Malaysian Concentric Bird which flies in ever-smaller circles, you disappear up your own asshole.”. ― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel that shows the detailed actions of flawed protagonists, as well as their compelling love for the Southwest. The themes in this book are land use and development, activism, anarchy, and land ownership. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (–), published in Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.
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