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The Mosquito Coast

Auteur(s): Paul Theroux
Narrateur(s): David Aaron Baker
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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award - 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’ Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian

'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess©1982 Cape Cod Scriveners (P)2010 Recorded Books LLC Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Thrillers et romans à suspense
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loved it! read it in high school. came back to it years later. Just as I remembered it!

great book!

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Hard to believe that so many years after it’s publication, the underlying themes are the same today. This is the heart of darkness, American style. The character of Allie is so finely wrought that the writing itself is worth reading, however dark the story. I have read all of Theroux’s travel books...but this fiction sets the tone for everyone of them. This is a classic.

Brilliant.

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On one hand, it's a book that elicited a strong emotional reaction toward the main character, but on the other hand, it was borderline insufferable. The performance by the narrator was on point and really conveyed the pressure-cooker situation. The story itself is pretty straight forward, it's the characters that make it interesting.
Only three stars overall from me, I didn't enjoy it enough to recommend it.

Mixed feelings about this book

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I felt like it grinded on and nothing very exciting really happened. 90% of it was listening to the insufferable ranting of the father, it drove me crazy. Wouldn't recommend.

not good

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I like Paul Theroux’s travel books very much; there are always some new insights. After The Plain of Snakes I tried this book. Unfortunately it reads like a Hollywood script, stereotypical, sentimental, predicable & way too long. The experience is amplified by the narration which is overly dramatized.

Tedious

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