EAN: 9780140060898

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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux.Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops crooks junkies and scavengers of modern America he abandons civilisation 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.'Stunning. . . exciting intelligent meticulously realised artful' Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth Guardian'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony BurgessAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony his novels and collected short stories My Other Life The Collected Stories My Secret History The Lower River The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro A Dead Hand Millroy the Magician The Elephanta Suite Saint Jack The Consul's File The Family Arsenal and his works of non-fiction including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.

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