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Name: The Mosquito Coast

Author: Paul Theroux
Year: 1981
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Travel, Adventure, Award winners, Classic

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9780618658961

The Mosquito Coast is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
"Stunning... exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful" --Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times
"An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror" --Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian
"Magnificently stimulating and exciting" --Anthony Burgess American travel writer

Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony.