Series
Monkey-Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey · 2 novels · 1975–1990
Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang follows four misfit environmentalists who take up sabotage against dam construction, strip mining, and highway building across the American Southwest, becoming an early touchstone for radical environmentalism. Abbey returned to an older version of the same characters in the 1990 sequel Hayduke Lives!
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
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By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
Shape
2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:literary & generalecological collapsenorth americacontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Hayduke Lives!darkest · most intense
- The Monkey Wrench Gangbrightest · calmest