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| Original Title: | The Mosquito Coast |
| ISBN: | 0618658963 (ISBN13: 9780618658961) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Honduras |
| Literary Awards: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1983) |
Paul Theroux
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.83 | 9178 Users | 654 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | The Mosquito Coast |
| Author | : | Paul Theroux |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Travel. Adventure. Classics. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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"The Mosquito Coast" is a fictional story of an American father Allie Fox, who is an inventor and completely disillusioned with the American lifestyle of consumerism and materialism ( "We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty, buy what we don't need, and throw away everything that's useful. Don't sell a man what he wants - sell him what he doesn't want. Pretend he's got eight feet and two stomachs and money to burn. That's not illogical - it's evil." ). Upon quitting his jobOkay, I'm quitting. So keep that in mind with regard to my 1 star rating. I got half way through and this was the last section I read: "Then the darkness, which was like fathoms of ink, softened, became finely gray, and, without revealing anything more of the sea, turned to powder. All around us the powdery dawn thickened, until, growing coarser and ashy, in a sunrise without sun, it threw us glimpses of the soapy sea and the shoreline and the jungle heaped like black rags of kelp." OMG! I can't
You know a book is really good when it makes you mad. Anger is one of the strongest emotions. The fury I felt at an imagined character has tickled something I need to explore. The antagonist of this novel, Allie Fox, or Father, as he is most commonly referred, is quite the inventor. As a strong patriarch, Father has a larger than life presence over everyone; his family most notably. Charlie, his eldest son, the protagonist, first reveres then comes to despise him. After being bullied and drug
Paul Theroux understands fathers and sons like few authors I have read, but I still struggle with Allie Fox's descent into madness. Part of me feels that we are supposed to struggle with his descent, to feel pity and empathy for him, but part of me feels that I am expected to feel anger and hate towards him -- things I do not and can not. Whether this is the failure of the author or the reader is beyond me, but it is enough to drop this book out of my true favorites (and it was one of my
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