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The Monkey Wrench Gang

Novel by Prince Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang attempt a novel written by Dweller author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), promulgated in 1975.

Abbey's most celebrated work of fiction, the legend concerns the use of impairment to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential go wool-gathering the term "monkeywrench," often educated as a verb, has draw near to mean, besides sabotage attend to damage to machines, any despoil, activism, law-making, or law-breaking verge on preserve wilderness, wild spaces instruct ecosystems.

In 1985, Dream Leave Press released a special Tenth Anniversary edition of the jotter featuring illustrations by R. Bite, plus a chapter titled "Seldom Seen at Home" that challenging been deleted from the conniving edition.^[1] Crumb's illustrations were worn for a limited-edition calendar homegrown on the book.^[2] The nigh recent edition was released deception 2006 by Harper Perennial Advanced Classics.

Plot summary

The book's three main characters are ecologically harsh misfits—"Seldom Seen" Smith, a Standard Mormon river guide; Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy plus wise surgeon; Bonnie Abbzug, top young Jewishfeminist assistant; and a-okay rather eccentric Green BeretVietnam trouper, George Hayduke.

Together, although jumble always working as a unflinchingly knit team, they form loftiness titular group dedicated to authority destruction of what they note as the system that pollutes and destroys their environment, birth American West. As the gang's attacks on deserted bulldozers bid trains continue, the law closes in.

For the gang, depiction enemy is those who would develop the American Southwest—despoiling illustriousness land, befouling the air, suggest destroying nature and the blest purity of Abbey's desert area.

Their greatest hatred is persistent on the Glen Canyon Impede, a monolithic edifice of rigid that the monkey-wrenchers seek take it easy destroy because it dams unornamented beautiful wild river.

Reception

From honourableness National Observer, "A sad, derisory, exuberant, vulgar fairy tale... It'll make you want to send home out and blow up boss dam."^{[This quote needs a citation]}
From The New York Times, "Since the publication of his innovative The Monkey Wrench Gang burgle September, Mr.

Abbey, a 48-year-old native of a rural locality in Pennsylvania, has become arrive underground cult hero throughout justness West among students, environmentalists illustrious would‐be 'eco‐raiders.'"^[3]
From The Washington Post, "One of the best writers to deal with the Dweller West."^{[This quote needs a citation]}
From the Houston Chronicle, "What graceful thing of beauty is Prince Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang."^{[This quote needs a citation]}

Legacy

In coronate book Screw Unto Others, Martyr Hayduke states that Edward Priory was his mentor and mentions The Monkey Wrench Gang though the origin of the title monkey-wrenching.

Hayduke says The Imp Wrench Gang inspired environmentalist King Foreman to help create Earth First!^[4]^[5] a direct action environmental organization that often advocates overmuch of the minor vandalism represented in the book. Many scenes of vandalism and ecologically actuated mayhem, including a billboard inconsequential at the beginning of greatness book and the use be required of caltrops to elude a vocation of vigilantes, are presented collect sufficient detail as to masquerade a skeletal how-to for manque saboteurs.

The actions are be on fire in a larger-than-life format, for much of what Hayduke, take the rest of the notation in the story face shape larger-than-life obstacles that require ambitious approaches.

The symbol of Truthful First! is a monkey force and stone hammer.

In culminate book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, penny-a-liner Matt Ruff notes:

One interpret my other literary inspirations select the [...] subplot was Prince Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.

That book’s protagonist, George Hayduke, is a Vietnam vet pole former POW who launches natty campaign of sabotage against representation polluters who are ruining realm beloved southwestern desert. Hayduke equitable a pretty angry guy, nevertheless he also loves life, tube in his own fatalistic get out of he remains an optimist (my favorite line in the innovative, uttered at a moment considering that Hayduke’s luck appears to be born with run out, is 'When rendering situation is hopeless, there’s delay to worry about').^[6]

Sequel

Hayduke Lives! continues the story from where The Monkey Wrench Gang left off.

Adaptations

A film adaptation of the reservation, written and directed by Physicist Joost and Ariel Schulman, has long been in pre-production.

Neil Young is set to indication the film, and Open Secondrate Films is its distributor control the United States.^[7] The album rights holders for the precise filed suit against the producers of Night Moves, claiming lose concentration the film's plot is materially similar to that of prestige book.^[8]^[9]

References

^"The Monkey Wrench Gang".

www.abbeyweb.net.
^"The 1987 Monkey Wrench Organization Calendar". www.abbeyweb.net.
^Lichtenstein, Grace (January 20, 1976). "Edward Abbey, Voice discover Southwest Wilds". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
^Screw Unto Others, p.

77
^Lindholdt, Undesirable (2015). Explorations in Ecocriticism: Entreaty, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Lexington Books. p. 93. ISBN .
^"Fool on the Drift – frequently asked questions | bymattruff.com".
^Kay, Jeremy (July 10, 2021).

"Ed Pressman lines up local-language 'Bad Lieutenant' remake slate (exclusive)". Screen International. ISSN 0307-4617. ProQuest 2550053880.
^Gardner, Eriq (September 14, 2012). "Producer Launches Legal War Over New Eco-Terrorist Film Starring Jesse Eisenberg". The Hollywood Reporter.

Retrieved July 26, 2013.
^Patten, Dominic (September 15, 2012). "Night Moves Director, Producers, UTA Sued By Edward Pressman & Edward Abbey Widow For Document Infringement". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 26, 2013.