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The Mosquito Coast by Theroux, Paul
by Theroux, Paul | PB | Good
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 0140060898
- Book Title
- Mosquito Coast
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140060898
ISBN-13
9780140060898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
35093
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Mosquito Coast
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-147929
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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., The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - 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 that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess American 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, My Other Life , The Collected Stories , My Secret History , The Lower River , The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro , A Dead Hand , Millroy the Magician , The Elephanta Suite , Saint Jack , The Consul's File , The Family Arsenal , and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
LC Classification Number
PS3570.H4M6 1982
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