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Edward Abbey was born in Pennsylvania in 1927 and spent most of his life in the American southwest. His books include the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which established Abbey as one of the country's foremost defenders of the environment. Edward Abbey died in 1989.
A sad, hilarious, exuberant, vulgar fairy tale... It'll make you want to go out and blow up a dam * The National Observer * Inspired acts of eco-activism in its day, and remains one of the most passionate pleas in literature to protect our wild places * Independent * Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more * San Francisco Chronicle * Launched America's 'eco-defense' movement ... A lasting cult classic * LA Times * A violently revolutionary novel * The New York Times * A thing of beauty - a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale * Houston Chronicle * 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 *
