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Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (1982, Hardcover, Limited) 
Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (1982, Hardcover, Limited)
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 1982-05-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0395320755
ISBN-13: 9780395320754
Product ID: EPID34967
Description: The 13-year-old son of a fanatical father tells the story of his family's journey from the New England suburbs to the Honduran jungle. Abominating what he sees as the decadence and horror of the 20th century, Allie Fox abandons civilizat...
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Synopsis
The 13-year-old son of a fanatical father tells the story of his family's journey from the New England suburbs to the Honduran jungle. Abominating what he sees as the decadence and horror of the 20th century, Allie Fox abandons civilization, keeping his family intact by sheer force of will and his tortured, quixotic genius, as they move inexorably through a diseased and dirty Eden towards darkness and terror. THE MOSQUITO COAST was an American Book Award nominee in 1982.

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Publication Date:1982-05-01
Edition Description:Limited

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An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life.

Industry Reviews
"This is not just his finest novel so far. It is--in a characteristically hooded way--a novelist's act of self-definition, a midterm appraisal of his own resources. It is a wonderful book, with so many levels to it that it feels bottomless. ...You could light a city with it."
Saturday Review - Jonathan Raban (02/01/1982)

"A fine entertainment, a gripping adventure story, a remarkable comic portrait of minds and cultures at cross-purposes."
New York Times Book Review - Thomas R. Edwards (07/14/1982)

"An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror."
Rose

"As oppressive and powerful as its central character. It bursts with inventiveness."
Rose

"An adventure story of the most exemplary kind....A work of genuine inspiration, intensely realized."
Rose

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