![]() ![]() That’s his day job but at night, with the help of his girlfriend Bonnie Abbzug, he burns billboard along the highway because they spoil the view.īonnie is a Jewish young woman from the Bronx. They can’t bear the scars that these human works do to the natural landscape.īut who are they and how did they form this revolutionary group?ĭr Sarvis, Doc, is a surgeon from Albuquerque. Dr Sarvis, Bonnie Abbzug, George Washington Hayduke and Seldom Seen Smith joined their forces to sabotage machines, bridges and constructions to slow down the roadwork and constructions sites in natural places. Or at least, that’s how we’d call them now. The Monkey Wrench Gang relates the fast-paced journey of four ill-assorted environmental activists. ![]() The area changes rapidly with the development of tourism, the construction of interstates and other huge works of engineering. All these constructions are fresh in memories and make the news when Abbey wrote his novel. It was published in 1975 and remember that the city of Page was founded in 1957, the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado river was inaugurated in 1964 and that Lake Powell was a result of this dam. The Monkey Wrench Gang is set in the desert regions of the American southwest. ![]()
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