Southwest Reads: The Monkey Wrench Gang

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Downtown Library Northwest Corner, Downtown Library. Discuss the stories of the Southwest with the Southwest Reads book club on the fourth* Wednesday of every other month (*Moved to the third Wednesday in December due to the holidays). This month's read is The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk. Email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2332 for additional information. To hear about all our upcoming programs, sign up for our weekly email blast at tiny.cc/fplnewsletter

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