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Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated desert solitaire, which decried the. The monkey wrench gang is a novel written by american author edward abbey 19271989, published in 1975 easily abbeys most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to. Edward abbey spent most of his life in the american southwest. Monkey wrench definition of monkey wrench by the free. This extraordinary tale by the legendary icon of the environmentalism movement and author of the monkey wrench gang proudly celebrates rugged american individualism, as it tells the story of one tough old loners stand against the combined, well.
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