The Mosquito Coast: A Novel - Hardcover

Theroux, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395318378 ISBN 13: 9780395318379

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1984

Synopsis

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

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From the Back Cover:

' "What kind of country is it that turns shoppers into traitors and honest men into liars? No one ever thinks of leaving this country. Charlie, I think of it every day." '

Allie Fox is sick of America and sick of humanity. Abandoning his home, he takes his family to live in the dense jungles of Honduras. An inventor, Allie is convinced there isn't a problem his mechanical genius can't solve and soon he is assembling the elements of a new, better world.

But Allie's Eden demands sacrifices - everyone must obey his rules and listen to his rants. As doubts creep in, so Allie heads deeper into the jungle and leads his family further into despair and darkness.

'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Guardian

About the Author:

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0395318378
• ISBN 13: 9780395318379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1