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Author Theroux, Paul.

Title The Mosquito Coast : a novel / by Paul Theroux ; with woodcuts by David Frampton.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION THEROUX    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F THEROUX    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC THE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION THEROUX    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  THEROUX, PAUL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  THEROUX, PAUL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC THEROUX    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F THEROUX, P.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC THEROUX    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F THEROUX, PAUL    Check Shelf

Description 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Form Also issued online.
Summary 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.
Awards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, 1981.
Subject Americans -- Honduras -- Fiction.
Honduras -- Fiction.
Americans. (OCoLC)fst00807488
Honduras. (OCoLC)fst01206188
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Adventure stories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Online version: Theroux, Paul. Mosquito Coast. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982 (OCoLC)559610270
ISBN 0395318378
9780395318379
0395320755 (lim. ed.)
9780395320754 (lim. ed.)
0140060898 (pbk.)
9780140060898 (pbk.)
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