The Mosquito Coast

Paul Theroux

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Penguin Books Ltd
01 February 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Essentials

The acclaimed novel from the author of The Great Railway Bazaar, published as

Penguin Essential for the first time

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilization 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.

'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian.

By: Paul Theroux
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 112mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 212g
ISBN: 9780241973653
ISBN 10: 0241973651
Series: Penguin Essentials
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1941. He has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including The Last Train to Zona Verde, Dark Star Safari, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Elephanta Suite, A Dead Hand, The Tao of Travel and The Lower River. The Mosquito Coast and Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands. His most recent work is Deep South, which is published by Hamish Hamilton.