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0-241-10688-5. The Mosquito Coast is a novel by author Paul Theroux. [1] Published in 1981, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. [2] [3]
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Apr 23, 2021 · Paul wrote the novel “The Mosquito Coast,” originally published in 1981. His nephew Justin plays Allie in the new Apple TV+ adaptation , premiering April 30. (Both men are executive producers).
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The Mosquito Coast was made into a film of the same name (1986) and The Mosquito Coast (TV series) in 2021. Chinese Box (1997), a film about the British handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, credits Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explored in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong.
May 11, 2021 · To say that Paul Theroux, the acclaimed novelist and travel writer, author of 57 books of fiction and non-fiction, is having a moment is an understatement. His 14th novel, The Mosquito Coas t ...
Jan 1, 1981 · Paul Theroux wrote a classic book on heading for parts remote with spiritual as well as physical baggage. In The Mosquito Coast, Allie Fox leaves home for a barely-mapped corner of Honduras. He has the survival skill of a foot fungus. Yet, he's a cruel bully married to a weak conflict-avoider. Thus, wherever they go, there they be.
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April 30, 2021. ( 2021-04-30) –. January 6, 2023. ( 2023-01-06) The Mosquito Coast is an American drama television series developed by Neil Cross and Tom Bissell based on the novel of the same name by Paul Theroux published in 1981. It is also loosely adapted from the 1986 film which starred Harrison Ford.
May 3, 2021 · In Peter Weir’s 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, which is faithful to the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux, the character rants and rails against American obesity and corporate greed, the failures of the ...
