The Mosquito Coast, Wellington in Wellington, Wellington for sale

Allie Fox was going to re - create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, scavengers and funny - bunnies of the twentieth century, he abandons civilization and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, quixotic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness and terror.'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror'- Guardian'Paul Theroux is a major writer of his generation'- Washington Post'As oppressive and powerful as its central character. It bursts with inventiveness'- The Times 384 pages
Author
Paul Theroux
Title
The Mosquito Coast
Publisher name
Penguin Books Ltd 1982 Paperback
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
1982
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Book Haven
Vendor rating
Key words
Fiction
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