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The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux · 1981

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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. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisHondurasHondurasMore like thisLess of thisLatin AmericaLatin AmericaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thisCaribbeanCaribbeanMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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