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The Mosquito Coast
Written by Paul Theroux
Narrated by David Aaron Baker
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award - 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’ Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian
'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award - 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’ Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian
'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess
LanguageEnglish
PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
Release dateJun 1, 2010
ISBN9781407405599
Author
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include Burma Sahib, The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers, and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Plain of Snakes, and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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Oct 13, 2023
I didn't know this author and I was pleasantly surprised. An interesting story with themes of human nature. The hatred towards the brother is okay, although it is a bit repetitive; otherwise, I liked the story quite a lot. (Translated from Spanish) - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Jul 7, 2019
Like an anti-Robinson Crusoe, the character in the novel cannot tolerate the time in which he lives and decides to build a world in an inhospitable place where he slowly and cruelly fails. And the reader feels compassion for the tenderness of this utopian inventor. (Translated from Spanish)