The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux Narrated by David Aaron Baker

Overview

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES
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

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

A work of fiendish energy and ingenuity.”—Newsweek “An impressive and disturbing vision of the American psyche.”—Washington Post   —

DECEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

Scornful of the American way of life, particularly television, the educational system, fast foods, and pollution, Allie Fox gathers his wife and four children and spirits them away from their home in Massachusetts to build a “better life” in the jungles of Honduras. Narrator David Aaron Baker sounds precisely like a teenage boy who is observing the inexplicable behaviors of his father: careful to keep his censure to himself but wishing only to be ordinary. At first, things in their jungle haven go quite well, but Allie is incapable of compromise. When events take a disastrous turn, Charlie watches his father’s megalomania turn to paranoia. Baker maintains the boy’s innocence as he searches for reasons to continue his admiration of this difficult, delusional man. A must-listen. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171105877
Publisher:	W. F. Howes Ltd
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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