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The Mosquito Coast

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Allie Fox, the brilliant and paranoid inventor, takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. His utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead his family towards unimaginable danger

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The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux

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1987
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English
Released
1987
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Paperback
Pages
384
ISBN10
0140082905
ISBN13
9780140082906
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Allie Fox, the brilliant and paranoid inventor, takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. His utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead his family towards unimaginable danger