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The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

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Product Code:
1565-01
ISBN
978-619-152-661-1
SKU
02.0090
Year
05-11-2015
Translation
from English: Ogniana Ivanova
Pages
432
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.55 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Crime, Adventure Novels, Modern Novels, Thriller

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name. Theroux was born in Med…

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Published in 1981 it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. It was adapted into a 1986 film starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix.

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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