The Monkey Wrench Gang

2011-08-19 Fiction

Author : Edward Abbey
Release : 2011-08-19
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 360/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Monkey Wrench Gang written by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 2011-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench

2003-12

Author : Vince Staten
Release : 2003-12
Genre :
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Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench written by Vince Staten. This book was released on 2003-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fun & funny celebration of hardware, Vince Staten answers the burning questions that have plagued humankind from time immemorial, such as: Did monkeys invent the monkey wrench?; Are Swiss Army knives really Swiss?; If cement was invented 7,000 years ago then why isn't the whole planet paved? Yes, in this book Staten reveals the mysterious origins of all the things that hold your house together & all the tools you've ever dreamed of having. And drawing on his years behind the counter of his father's hardware store, he reminds us that there once was a place where like-minded souls could discuss really important things like baseball, bad movies, & box-end wrenches. An amusing trip into the world of hardware.

The Monkey's Wrench

2017-06-20 Fiction

Author : Primo Levi
Release : 2017-06-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 669/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Monkey's Wrench written by Primo Levi. This book was released on 2017-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chemist-turned-writer and a construction rigger in a remote factory pass the time swapping tales of their lives and voyages. Primo Levi’s most light-hearted novel, The Monkey’s Wrench is a tribute to storytelling, human ingenuity, and the importance of finding meaningful work in life. “A lot of stories have happened to me,” says Faussone, the mysterious construction rigger at the center of this comic novel by Primo Levi. Far from home on a work assignment, Libertino Faussone befriends the book’s narrator, a chemist based loosely off of Levi himself. Although he can’t quite explain it, the chemist is immediately entranced by the wandering laborer who has traveled to every corner of the world. The two embark on an unlikely friendship, trading tales filled with curses and spies, scandal and heartbreak. With its easy-going and even whimsical tone, The Monkey’s Wrench is a change from Primo Levi’s other works. Yet its message is just as vital. The novel reminds us about the importance of connection between strangers, our endless capacity to solve even the most challenging of problems, and finding fulfillment in work. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.

The Velvet Monkey Wrench

1973 Philosophy

Author : John Muir
Release : 1973
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Velvet Monkey Wrench written by John Muir. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hayduke Lives!

2011-08-21 Fiction

Author : Edward Abbey
Release : 2011-08-21
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 425/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hayduke Lives! written by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 2011-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Abbey’s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon” (The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he’s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . This sequel to Edward Abbey’s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine—in “a fine novel, combative and comic, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive” (Albuquerque Journal). “I laughed out loud reading this book.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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