The Monkey Wrench Gang (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Abbey
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Didactic adventure
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: The American Southwest
- Principal Characters: Doc Sarvis, Bonnie Abzug, George Washington Hayduke, Seldom Seen Smith, J. Dudley Love
- Genres: Long fiction, Didactic literature
- Subjects: Politics, Nature, Polygamy or bigamy, Southwest, Environment or environmental health, Industrialization
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
The Novel
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a rollicking adventure novel with a serious political message. It covers the adventures of four disparate characters who band together to disable power plants and their supporting equipment, which they believe despoil the landscape of the desert. The book is credited with having inspired the formation of the ecological protest group Earth First! A prologue is followed by four chapters introducing the four monkey-wrenchers, then twenty-six chapters detailing their adventures, and finally an epilogue.
In “Prolog: The...
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