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The Mosquito Coast
A General Fiction Novel by Paul Theroux
Subgenres:
- Adventure Fiction,
- Central America,
- Psychological Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Off-the-grid family dramas with visionary but volatile parents
- Utopia-building gone wrong in wild, unforgiving settings
- Narratives filtered through a teen's conflicted perspective
From legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that is a spellbinding adventure story of an American family that rejects its homeland and tries to find a happier life in the jungles of Central America.
The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox uproots his family from their New England farm to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left.
An individualist, Allie sees modern America as wasteful, immoral, and messy. Fleeing from materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life.
Told by fourteen-year-old Charlie Fox, who observes his father with a mixture of love, astonishment, and ultimately horror, The Mosquito Coast is a twisted Swiss Family Robinson or an ironic take on Robinson Crusoe.
For as Allie becomes ever more lost to reality, this utopian experiment takes a dark turn as his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
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