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    The Mosquito Coast
    The Mosquito Coast
    The Mosquito Coast
    Audiobook16 hours

    The Mosquito Coast

    Written by Paul Theroux

    Narrated by David Aaron Baker

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    NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

    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
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    Paul Theroux

    Paul Theroux (b. 1941) attended the University of Massachusetts then trained for the Peace Corps at Syracuse University. He was sent to Italy, then to Malawi. He was thrown out of the Peace Corps but remained in Africa, teaching in Uganda. Since then, he has traveled frequently, but now divides his time between Cape Cod and Hawaii. Other works include PIcture Palace, Mosquito Coast, Fong and the Indians, and Jungle Lovers.

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