The Mosquito Coast [electronic resource]
Paul Theroux2011
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The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - 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; his
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Main title:
The Mosquito Coast [electronic resource] / Paul Theroux
Author:
Paul Theroux, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages,)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780241959190
Language:
English
BRN:
427736
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |