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The Mosquito Coast

Paul Theroux

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#289 of 8,085 books · #67 in Crime & Thriller

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1981). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

The Mosquito Coast won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. 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.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780241959190
Topics
Fanaticism and obsessionSearch for utopiaFamily survival in the wilderness

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