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Kolesar

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3. I gave mine away to a friend who read them

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:30 AM

Jan 2012

I mailed the Monkey Wrench Gang to a friend of mine who was in jail. I didn't know he was in jail at the time! He loved it.

The real find is "Jonathan Troy". It had limited distribution, Abbey was not proud of it, so it never went back into print.

One of my favorite quotes was that his royalties moved him up into the lower middle class.

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"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war" and other fun quotes by Edward Abbey [View all] Kolesar Jan 2012 OP

"There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group." ... Scuba Jan 2012 #1

Love Abbey and have all his books. Bonhomme Richard Jan 2012 #2

I gave mine away to a friend who read them Kolesar Jan 2012 #3