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The Mosquito Coast
de Theroux, Paul
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, green boards good, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm; pages unmarked but brownin
- Librería
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, green boards good, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm; pages unmarked but browning throughout.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 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. Made into a film starring Harrison Ford.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- IYC128423
- Título
- The Mosquito Coast
- Autor
- Theroux, Paul
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, green boards good, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm; pages unmarked but brownin
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1981
- Páginas
- 392
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- 1st, fiction, Latin America, Theroux, prize
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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