By Edward Abbey
Ed Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, ended with a classic--and literal--cliffhanger: it left its hero, George Washington Hayduke III, clinging to a sheer rock face within the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radicalist crimes. Hayduke Lives! permits the grizzled Vietnam veteran one other day within the solar, reunited along with his previous comrades document Sarvis, Seldom visible Smith, and Bonnie Abbzug to conflict the world's largest earthmoving computer, the aptly named GOLIATH. Their imperative foe, except that behemoth, is the fundamentalist preacher Dudley Love, the mastermind at the back of uranium mines, energy crops, and different insults to Abbey's cherished desert.
Abbey has nice enjoyable lampooning the pretensions of environmental activists, New Agers ("vee positioned flora on zee vast Bucket, vee placed vegetation on zee driver's neck and hug heem? her? it? and kiss and luff and squeeze and make GOLIATH stop," says one starry-eyed eu crystal gazer), and builders alike as he unfolds his story of a motorized Wild West and its latter-day outlaw heroes. As packed with inconceivable events and noisy politics as Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives! proves to be nice enjoyable for readers besides.
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So I ran on tiptoe into the back of the house, only to find the door to the porch wide open. When I saw my mother, I forgot all about Grace Tarking.
I would have a body that the boys wanted and the girls envied, but I’d be so nice on top of it all that they would feel too guilty to do anything but worship me. I liked to think of myself—having reached a sort of queenly status—as protecting misfit kids in the cafeteria. When someone taunted Clive Saunders for walking like a girl, I would deliver swift vengeance with my foot to the taunter’s less-protected parts. When the boys teased Phoebe Hart for her sizable breasts, I would give a speech on why boob jokes weren’t funny.
He had last seen him there. Into the deep ruff of fur surrounding the dog’s neck, my father would let himself cry. That afternoon the three of them crept forward in silence, as if the sound of footsteps might confirm the news. Nate’s mother knocked on the door to return Buckley. No one answered. She stepped away, knowing something had changed inside the house, which looked exactly like the ones on either side of it. She made herself my brother’s co-conspirator, telling him they would go out for ice cream and ruin his appetite.