With ingenuity, bravery and plenty of gumption, they go about “monkey-wrenching” various construction sites in southern Utah and northern Arizona, hampering the efforts of absentee corporations to tame and monetize the wilderness. Loaded with plenty of his patented cynicism (in regards to humans) and endless passion (in regards to the desert southwest – sans humans), it’s a uniquely caustic chronicle that has served as a rallying cry for the environmental movement ever since.ĭistressed by the accelerating destruction of the American Southwest, all in the name of capitalism and greed, a foursome of independent-minded patriots decide to see what they can do to put a stop to it. The Monkey Wrench Gang is the late Edward Abbey’s most influential work of fiction and fully captures the man at his most crotchety. It’s the novel that generated a new verb that still resonates across the American West, even decades after it was first published in 1975.
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