A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying
America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely
wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington
Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he
finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The
pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and
paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate
coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial
ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even.
Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy,
billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist,
Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways
imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left
standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to
Utah. Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang
is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as
relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental
movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed
“The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic
classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call
from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise
the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough
chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San
Francisco Chronicle
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ISBN
9780795317361
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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