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The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux
Theroux's novel about an American inventor who drags his family to the Honduran jungle to build a utopia. It goes wrong in every possible way. A dark comedy about American arrogance in the tropics.
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Ocean & Coast
Fiction
Mexico & Central America
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Published
2006
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