The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux
Narrador David Aaron Baker
Editora: W. F. Howes Ltd
Sinopse
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award - 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' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess
Duração: aproximadamente 17 horas (16:38:04) Data de publicação: 01/06/2010; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 1982. Copyright Statment: —