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Jan 1, 1981 · Paul Theroux. 3.81. 12,868 ratings1,003 reviews. In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left.
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''The Mosquito Coast'' is the story of Allie Fox, a Yankee genius, a Maine-born Harvard dropout, a self-taught engineer and inventor, a rejector of God and the American Way and all other...
The Mosquito Coast is a novel by author Paul Theroux. Published in 1981, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year.
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Nov 12, 2015 · “The Mosquito Coast.” Over a period of two years, knowing it was a great idea and plot, I wrote confidently in rainy cold sedate London, and it is of course a book set in sunny warm anarchic...
THE MOSQUITO COAST. by Paul Theroux ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 24, 1981. The narrator of this spirited, excessive, half-successful adventure/parable is 13-year-old Charlie Fox. But the main character is Charlie's father Allie--and a character he is, in the grand (somewhat empty) tradition of eccentric, vocal, never-say die, anti-everything genius ...
Apr 30, 2021 · A review of The Mosquito Coast, the new Apple TV+ series adapting the 1981 Paul Theroux novel.
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Jul 2, 2023 · This post provides a comprehensive review of the book's narrative, key characters, and overarching themes. In particular, we'll explore the role of family and parenting in the story, offering insightful takeaways for the readers.
