{"product_id":"9780140060898-the-mosquito-coast","title":"The Mosquito Coast","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAllie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning. exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican 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, \u003ci\u003eMy Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e My Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMillroy the Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaint Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Consul's File\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Arsenal\u003c\/i\u003e, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449664352630,"sku":"9780140060898","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32377834.jpg?v=1760446368","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780140060898-the-mosquito-coast","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}