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The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast | Paul Theroux
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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 novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
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Becker
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The father in this book is one of the most interesting characters I have read in a long time. There is a lot going on in that man. 🛖

Suet624 It‘s quite the movie. 6mo
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Currey
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#readingtheamericas2023 #honduras What starts out as an allegorical tale of western man‘s relationship to nature slowly turns into a psychological thriller. The narrator is a young teenaged boy and his relationship with his egotistic father careens from worship to loathing as the father‘s hubris brings destruction to his family and as nature does what she does best - surprise!

Librarybelle I really need to read Theroux‘s books! 14mo
BarbaraBB I read this too, a long time ago. I should have reread it for the challenge! 14mo
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DHill
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Up next in audio. ✨

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RamsFan1963
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tricours
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I really liked this one! I love the progression from eccentricity to something far more sinister, and the survival aspect. I don‘t think there was a boring page. Has anyone seen the movie? #passportlitsy

Ingerella The movie is good! I always thought it was one of those good movies noone has heard of. 6y
Ms.Story This sounds like a fantastic read 📚 6y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I loved this book. One of my all-time favorites. The movie is really good too - disconcerting to see Harrison Ford in that kind of role. 6y
Nute I think I‘ve heard of this title before, but I‘ve neither read the book or seen the movie. I‘m intrigued on both levels now! 6y
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Susanita
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A man takes his family to Honduras to start a new life, but it doesn't work out well. #getawaysgonewrong #sizzlinsummerbooks

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Mcoun
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Well, this was one of the darkest books I've read in a long time. A man takes his wife and children to the jungles of Honduras to build a utopia. Suffice it to say, it doesn't go as planned.

Kangaj1 I watched the movie as a kid. Did not realize it was a book! 8y
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Anna40
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This is bail because of "Father" and his recklessness and ruthlessness.
"He would dare us to go out and sit on a rock and stay there until the rising tide threatened us. It was a summer game we had played in Cape Cod. But it was still spring in Baltimore - too cold for swimming - and we had all our clothes on. I could not believe he was serious, so I said I would try, and expected him to laugh. He said, 'You're keeping us waiting.'

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Kindredanne
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Leelee08 This.❤️ 8y
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